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Woven together with haunting languge and a bizarre story line, Ocean Sea centers around four lost souls staying at a seaside inn, each hoping that the ocean's therapeutic power will heal their spiritual wounds. The characters are a mixture of precocious children and wizened adults who all offer trite...

Author: By Cara New, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Seaside Soul Searching | 2/26/1999 | See Source »

DIED. IRIS MURDOCH, 79, erudite and macabre British writer, philosopher and Booker Prize winner; after a battle with Alzheimer's disease; in Oxford, England. In her 26 novels, including A Severed Head and An Accidental Man, Murdoch described in intricate detail middle-class characters in the throes of what she...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Feb. 22, 1999 | 2/22/1999 | See Source »

Of course, a just-plain-funny gift can win hearts as well. Call Boston's Sweet-n-Nasty erotic bakery and send over some salacious treats. Their Valentine's selection ranges from harmless heart-shaped cakes and chocolate roses to heart boxes filled with porno chocolates. But be careful, a...

Author: By Lynda A. Yast, | Title: Speedy Delivery | 2/11/1999 | See Source »

Surely the French deconstructionist Michel Foucault must be deployed. Football enacts the Foucaultian paradigm wherein all actions, even involuntary motions or "fakes" or failures (quarterback sacked), coalesce in meaning, and everything that the game organizes in the way of objects, rites, customs (the superstitious butt slapping, the narcissistically erotic Bob...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Deconstructionist at the Super Bowl | 1/18/1999 | See Source »

Has the world become just like Ellis describes--one of sheen and brands? The temptation is to respond to Glamorama in a superficial way, merely enjoying the great lines and the action, not seeing it as real. And Ellis, for all his critique of style, is a master of it...

Author: By Daryl Sng, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Too Much Too Old: Glamorama so 1996 | 1/8/1999 | See Source »

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