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...AMERICAN TABLOID by James Ellroy (Knopf). This big, brazenly entertaining novel begins in 1958 and ends seconds before the assassination of John F. Kennedy in Dallas. In between, James Ellroy--a crime-noir cult writer making his mainstream debut--propels two rogue FBI agents and a former Los Angeles County deputy sheriff through a fictionalized, nightmarish tour of five tumultuous years in U.S. history. Life is seldom horrifying and hilarious at the same moment. On nearly all its 576 pages, American Tabloid manages to be both...
...SKUNK ANANSIE Paranoid & Sunburnt (Epic/One Little Indian). This British quartet, one of the few hard-rock bands fronted by a black woman, boasts a scaldingly bold sound, mixing chunks of punk, bits of R. and B. and even a dash of gospel in its joyously fierce debut album...
...Note). Seated at the piano, this 30-year-old Parisian import doesn't just play a song; he seizes it, takes it through his own looking glass and refracts it in ways that squeeze fresh thrills out of old Rodgers and Hart and Cole Porter jazz standards. Terrasson's debut served notice that here is a star in the making...
...parody is acute, effective and intellectually substantial, despite its debut on a page other than this one. Through wholesale condemnation of Unofficial Political Satire, the staff nicely circumscribes the forged wanted poster's intended message: unjustified racism within the Harvard University Police Department. Rather than dismiss such powerful speech, we should acknowledge a trend so seldom detailed on the leaves of Official Student Thought...
Though few adult TV watchers know her, Ling is a celebrity to millions of American teenagers. In between classes at U.S.C., she works as a correspondent for Channel One News, which sends a daily 12-minute newscast to 12,000 American secondary schools. Since its debut in 1990, Channel One has been a controversial operation, mainly because inside each program it packages two minutes of commercials for products like Pepsi and Reebok shoes. Created by media entrepreneur Christopher Whittle (who sold it last year to K-III Communications), Channel One still raises hackles in some quarters: officials in New York...