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...embodies, perhaps even more fully than Microsoft's Bill Gates, the personal-computer revolution. And a decade after he bought a fledgling digital-animation studio from George Lucas, Toy Story and A Bug's Life have brought Silicon Valley and Hollywood one huge step closer to connubial bliss. Last week, with Apple's luscious new iMacs unveiled and Toy Story 2 unspooling at an exclusive TIME preview, Jobs, after years spent pacing the sidelines, was suddenly at the top of both his games...
...Knopf; 208 pages; $22) and Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies (Mariner; 198 pages; $12). Lahiri has a gift for illuminating the full meaning of brief relationships--with lovers, family friends, those met in travel. A more lasting bond--the one between fathers and daughters--is elegantly explored in Bliss Broyard's My Father, Dancing...
...spending my first week in style. Indeed, physical comfort abounded in their central London flat, but the place lacked one essential ingredient: people to talk to. Without so much as a television set, I found myself wandering around the flat in complete silence. They say that solitude is bliss, but with no one to talk to, I didn't quite know what to do with myself. Needless to say, I was desperate to find a better-populated housing arrangement...
...study released last week by the National Marriage Project at Rutgers University indicates that young people are increasingly pessimistic about achieving marital bliss. The percentage of high school girls who expect to stay married for life dropped from 68% in 1976 to 64% in 1995. Fifty-three percent say it is worthwhile to have a child out of wedlock, compared with 33% in 1976. Why? The study cites the growing economic independence of women and the rising number of children of divorce who are wary of marriage...
...Ellison "to that Vanished Tribe into Which I Was Born: The American Negroes"--he proudly and defiantly resisted the successive fads to rename that tribe--Juneteenth turns on the complex relationship between an ex-jazzman and trickster turned preacher, Alonzo Hickman, and his white--or nearly white--foster child, Bliss. Hickman reluctantly agrees to midwife and then raise this child of a white woman whose false accusation of rape had caused his brother to be lynched. Bliss, though lovingly nurtured by his stepfather, eventually runs away in search of his lost mother and later transforms himself into Senator Adam Sunraider...