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All angst-ridden American parents who question the prevalence of violence and strife in the media should read Laurie Colwin's final novel, A Big Storm Knocked It Over. When they emerge blinking with stupefaction from this warm and cuddly narrative of domestic tranquility, they'll be begging for gratuitous...
A large part of the generational tension lies in reactions to sex and sexuality. Maydee claims that she does not want or need a man, deriding Lola for always running after a "gigolo." Lola, never afraid to speak her mind, answers scornfully to Maydee that "a blanket's cuddly if...
Yet most local newscasts are anchored by two people, almost always a man and a woman. One reason is that co-anchorship makes a show seem fast-paced. Then there is the quasi-feminist, yin-and-yang rationale: viewers evidently prefer a male-female balance at the anchor desk. (Indeed...
In 1978, when Jack Horner happened upon 14 rocky nests in an eastern Montana excavation that was later dubbed Egg Mountain, another dinosaur myth bit the dust. The egg-filled nests belonged to hadrosaurs -- duck-billed dinosaurs -- which had apparently built vast rookeries much the way social birds like penguins...
With its emphasis on old-fashioned manners and clean fun, the country line is square dancing for the '90s, the perfect pastime for the chummy, cuddly, slightly corny Clinton years. The trend was already gathering steam when Billy Ray Cyrus' 1992 hit Achy Breaky Heart spawned a line dance called...