Word: darkness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Blake Langhofer was the first to arrive. It was 6:40 a.m., and a sickle moon still hung in the dark sky over Maize High School near Wichita, Kans. In sandals and shorts, Blake, 16, approached his school's blue flagpole. He leaned forward, placed his hands on it and bowed his head. Soon he was joined by four friends, all jeans-clad and smelling sweetly of soap and shampoo. They formed a circle, and someone entreated the Lord aloud: "I pray you do wonders through the pole and let your wonders show through the pole." First a trickle, then...
...Easton Ellis, author of Less Than Zero and American Psycho and a longtime McInerney buddy, doesn't seem too worried about the feelings of models either. His next book, Glamorama, due out this winter, is a screed against models and celebrity. McInerney says the passages he has read are dark, something he avoided. "I deliberately wrote a comic novel because you don't go chasing butterflies with sledgehammers," he says...
...temperamental probate lawyer, converges on a common point of pain: the hit-and-run death of 10-year-old Josh Learner, Ethan and Grace's music-prodigy son, at the cold steel hands of Dwight's Ford Taurus. The death is an accident, all blood and vectors, but the dark, emotional dance that follows is shown to be as inevitable as fate...
...understand. In the meantime, the two men circle each other, nearer and nearer, meeting by happenstance, then by design. At first it is only Dwight, the perpetrator, who understands what links the three of them. His crime makes him all-knowing, a sort of God. That's the dark truth at the center of Schwartz's story: the guilty see all too clearly, all too starkly, what the innocent can only guess...
...page as of Monday morning. Since the bug affects every version of Navigator and Communicator, but is not found on any Microsoft browser, Brumleve's discovery could be a serious blow for the already-embattled Netscape in the browser wars. Privacy-minded Netscape fans might consider switching to the dark side, at least for the time being...