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...lists some recent hot sellers, proof of the customers' diversity: Horns and Crescent, a Cambridge-based pagan magazine; Tibetan jewelry and books; and Conversations With God, Neale Donald Walsch's New York Times bestseller...

Author: By Vasant M. Kamath, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: From Tarot to UFOs, Seven Stars Bookstore Features Occult Works | 4/14/1999 | See Source »

...sweaty, screaming throng asks, begs, demands more. A single silver crescent slices through the madness. It is the messianic figure of Thorndike Smith, back arched in orgiastic pleasure, lips curled, a portal to the monster sound that pours from his gilded throat. His synth-pop benediction sends a tidal wave of emotion through his already epileptic disciples. This is the phenomenon known as JENNR8R. In an unprecedented move, JENNR8R agreed to be interviewed, if only briefly, by Fifteen Minutes...

Author: By Richard D. Ma, | Title: Introducing: Jennr8r | 2/18/1999 | See Source »

...have no qualms about being a little rude with your cookies. My blocking group would attest that I am a nice enough guy, but taking a walnut crescent is a serious offense. Sure, the chocolate ones were for them (it must be a genetic defect, I know, but not everyone likes the dark stuff), but a misplaced finger on a raspberry square would be grounds for a hearing with the Ad Board in my book. And not a meeting over lunch either...

Author: By Adam I. Arenson, JERUSALEM | Title: The Joy of Cookies | 12/4/1998 | See Source »

...these acts into its expansive design. A quartet of carousel horses canters through the air. Angels, hunchbacks, giant toucans materialize as cameo apparitions. Anything may navigate the pool: a bathtub, a giant inverted umbrella, a wayward iceberg, a shark fin that turns out to be the top of a crescent moon. At the end the hunchback plays a grand piano as the princess reclines on it--art, love and beauty in one heartbreaking image--and then, slowly, it dissolves into the water. Here and throughout, O achieves a goal of the highest art: to elevate its audience to a state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Las Vegas--Over The Top: A Show That Soars--and Swims | 10/26/1998 | See Source »

...after him. Reagan Gillespie, from Appleton, Wis., sent Reagan a framed photo of himself and was invited -- along with his father and grandfather -- to meet the 87-year-old ex-president. Not speaking much, Reagan still offered a handshake "like a grandfather would give," the boy told The Post-Crescent of Appleton. The photo that sparked the invitation for three generations of Gillespie men was accompanied by a passage from the Book of Proverbs: "There is honor in a great name." "He still has a twinkle in his eye," Steve Gillespie, the boy's father, said of President Reagan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reagan's Social Call | 6/29/1998 | See Source »

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