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...question as Citizen Turner," he says. "I was not answering it as Ted Turner, president of Turner Broadcasting. I was really sorry that I used that term." Still, Citizen Turner hasn't toned down his views. "These people ((antiabortionists)) talk about adoption as an alternative. That is a bunch of bull. The biggest problem we have in the world is the population explosion. There are 100 million kids in the world that are up for adoption right now. Adopt them...
Pynchon's devotion to electronic allusions has been criticized before, and Vineland will no doubt increase the number of protests. It is, admittedly, disquieting to find a major author drawing cultural sustenance from The Brady Bunch and I Love Lucy instead of The Odyssey and the Bible. But to condemn Pynchon for this strategy is to confuse the author with his characters. He is a gifted man with anti-elitist sympathies. Like some fairly big names in innovative fiction, including Flaubert, Joyce and Faulkner, Pynchon writes about people who would not be able to read the books in which they...
Montana counters such accolades with disarming modesty. "I'm fortunate to be on a great team," he says. "You can't have great success unless you have a solid, dedicated bunch of players behind you. We keep pecking away with our , possession-type offense, taking what the other side gives us. It's nothing special. Other quarterbacks are stronger and faster than I am." True enough -- Denver's John Elway, Miami's Dan Marino and Philadelphia's Randall Cunningham all have more natural talent -- but no one uses his abilities as effectively. "Joe may not be the best...
When George Bush took office about a year ago, he could look around at a tidy club of democratic, market-oriented friends staring across a wall at a bunch of backyard bullies. The wall fell down, the bullies were chased off, and now everybody wants into George's club...
...presenting his term project. "I want the women!" cried Lepine, ordering female students to one side of the room and men into the hall. "We thought it was a joke," said Bouchard. They learned otherwise when the gunman pumped several rounds into the ceiling. Shouting, "You're all a bunch of feminists!" to his women hostages, Lepine opened fire, killing six on the spot...