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...awful events in the world. The true terror is, of course, that no one is, and we live in a world of random horror. Still, the premise is intriguing. Unfortunately, it gets spoilt by Ellis' penchant for proper nouns. For a book whose main character is so desperately au courant, the anachronisms and inaccuracies are enough to disturb. References are still made to the late Michael Hutchence, Winona Ryder still dates Dave Pirner, and the de rigeur Startac cellphone is misspelled. A deeper problem is the namedropping. Supposedly meant to satirize Victor's obsession with looks, one cannot help...
...Clad pots offered at Williams-Sonoma and you might just stumble upon a cooking class. Walk into an Old Navy clothing store and you're apt to find clerks handing out tote bags for carrying merchandise, a soda fountain, and a billboard announcing the store's au courant motto: SHOPPING IS FUN AGAIN...
Above all, Florence Harding was an ambitious and headstrong First Lady, a key adviser to her husband, an agitator for women's rights and an advocate for injured veterans. She also comes off as a woman who would be terribly au courant today. Not only did she employ an astrologer, but she also championed animal rights and wooed Hollywood as a sort of Nancy Reagan meets Hillary Clinton meets Kim Basinger...
...discuss them in a college paper or magazine. It is possible they may be dissatisfied with us because we do not offer the opportunity. Let them, however, consider the matter candidly. The Yale Lit is of the character proposed. As a rule it is "intolerably dull"--we use the Courant's words--in those parts where it differs from less pretentious periodicals. The same was true of similar magazines formerly published in Cambridge. Few read them, and they soon died. The reason is not hard to find. The thoughts of very young men are usually crude, and to every...
...Times Mirror empire in 1995, Willes has moved with a ruthlessness that earned him the nicknames "Cap'n Crunch" and "the Cereal Killer." He whacked 2,000 jobs by killing the New York City edition of Newsday and slicing staff at papers like the Baltimore Sun and the Hartford Courant. During the same period, the company's stock price has nearly tripled, from $22 a share...