Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Wherever they are now, those 39 Nike-clad members of the Heaven's Gate cult who committed the tidiest of suicides last March didn't leave behind much except for their bodily "vehicles," a few personal possessions and a handful of still living devotees who, in the cult's decidedly unsoaring ecclesiastical language, hadn't yet made it to the "level beyond human." Six weeks later, fellow "students" Chuck Humphrey and Wayne ("Nick") Cooke attempted to complete their course work in the approved manner--by swallowing a combination of alcohol and phenobarbital and tying plastic bags over their heads...
...stew forever? Where is the justice for Pol Pot, the most odious mass murderer since Hitler and Stalin, who was brought into public view on videotape in a Khmer Rouge show trial. There he sat, still as death, watery eyes, age spots, every inch an ordinary old man, except in his vile soul. Where was the international tribunal to bring this subhuman low before the world? Or was it thought sufficient that he appeared on television...
...female identification explained the mass sadness, why were all the men weeping? And why were Americans weeping--we who could not care less about Britain's monarchy except in quaint memories of the literature of Kings and Queens? It may be simply that people make gods of selected celebrities and that Diana had to die to achieve godhead. Then, like Elvis, she became accessible after death; the public could leave flowers and personal messages at the gate of the Spencers' country estate, her Graceland...
...Except possibly those mornings the reviews for his shows come out. With the apparent end of Andrew Lloyd Webber's string of hits, Wildhorn has taken over as the middlebrow melodist critics love to hate. His soaring ballads are dismissed as bland pop geared for easy-listening radio; his shows are scorned as cut-rate imitations of Phantom of the Opera and Les Miserables. ("The man writes galumphing, dunderheaded musicals that make...everything by Andrew Lloyd Webber seem like great art"--Newsday.) But he is a musical populist and proud of it. "Lyrics can be hard to grasp," he says...
...writer's close, conflicted ties to his birthplace give his work its special flavor, not to mention its distinctive sense of the not quite familiar. Richler's raffish characters could be from New York, Chicago or Los Angeles, except that they are nuts about hockey, spice their conversation with French as well as Yiddish and have legal access to Cuban cigars...