Word: chaptered
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...chairs. Teenagers play games of chicken. And adults make jury-rigged deals to launch expensive, redundant cable-TV channels. What else is one to make of the panic and quien-es-mas-macho giddiness variously gripping all of television's big boys right now? It's just the latest chapter in the ongoing struggle between the broadcasters -- NBC, ABC, Fox, CBS, their hundreds of affiliate stations -- and the cable-TV operators, but this time the frenzy is particularly intense and farcical, the ironies especially rich, the broadcasters wussier and the cable industry more bullying than usual...
Sure. But don't tell anyone. Naturally, the word spreads, to a drinking buddy, his girlfriend, a wife and so on. There's nothing wrong with the narrative idea here, and the reader should skid amiably into the underbrush of Chapter 2, as the treasure finders turn into thieves and murderers, miring themselves in treachery. But Smith has written a story in which all the characters, not excluding the first-person narrator, are stupid, mean and boring. They are jerks, irredeemable fools, and if one sat down next to you at a bar and started talking, you would pay your...
...greater challenge was to stay mentally fit. He found comfort in recollections of Darkness at Noon, Arthur Koestler's classic novel about a prisoner locked in solitary confinement. After a while he began to reconstruct his own life story, then slowly recite, out loud, each heavily detailed chapter. "This is the verbal autobiography of Harvey Weinstein, aged 6," he intoned as he conjured up the memories of his first-grade teacher and long- forgotten classmates. Sometimes, however, the horror of his predicament got the best of him, and he cried out for his captors to kill him and leave...
...between sailing with Jackie and dining with the Kissingers, Clinton has dozens of other invitations to sort through. The Vineyard chapter of the N.A.A.C.P. has asked him to speak, the Oak Bluffs selectmen want to present him with a medal, and the Wampanoag tribe has invited him to a powwow. The Edgartown city fathers may have had the best idea. Knowing the President's weakness for town meetings, they have invited him to one scheduled...
Whatever the decision, the guards have vowed to fight their cases until they win what they believe to be justice. This chapter of controversy in the guard unit, it seems, may have only just begun...