Word: existence
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...HarperCollins are launching new divisions to capture the big-print audience. Says Michael Morrison, associate publisher of the HarperCollins adult trade division: "A lot of the reason there has not been an explosion in sales of large-print books in bookstores is that people don't even know they exist. Booksellers have traditionally shelved them in a section in the back of the store." But publishers intend to change that--by persuading booksellers to showcase these books near the front of the store and offer crowd-pleasing discounts...
...plays--works with imaginative ambition, a social context, plots--still exist, however, and two have arrived to end Broadway's season with a flourish. Amy's View has been dismissed, somewhat patronizingly, as a vehicle for Judi Dench, fresh from her Oscar for Shakespeare in Love. As Esme, the self-centered actress whose relationship with her daughter (Samantha Bond) deteriorates over the years, Dench is indeed a marvel, as impressive for what she doesn't do as what she does. This is no scenery-chewing cartoon of a theatrical grand dame but a tightly controlled and utterly convincing portrait...
...standard all her own. You think advances in reproductive technology have been good for women? Well, writes Greer (who underwent failed fertility treatments), "I think it rather more likely that, if women should be found to be unnecessary for the continuation of the species, they would cease to exist at all." Sexual freedom seem like a good thing? "The sexuality that has been freed is male sexuality." Women deserve an equal shot at a career in the military? Fine, but just remember: "In modern warfare, women and children on the ground are in greater danger than the professionals who maim...
...woman who has, in many ways, devoted herself to the life of the mind, unhindered by family? She teaches at Warwick University and produces scholarly studies on obscure women poets, whose work she publishes with her own Stump Cross Press. But Greer says the whole woman does not exist, and is not she. There's that little matter of waiting by the phone, for starters. "I still, ah, I make myself sick," she admits. "I will flirt, I will--bleccccch--do all of that s__, it's amazing...
...Because of Internet and satellite communications, communities are getting bigger," says Stein, "and the concept of community standards is disappearing." If people in Cincinnati, or anywhere else in the country, can log on to porn web sites from anywhere else in the world, how can local standards exist, let alone be defined, for any medium? This is the argument Flynt wants to press and win at his trial, and thereby "turn himself from smut peddler to First Amendment statesman," says Stein. But Flynt may not get his chance. "The prosecutors in this case were smart," says Stein. "They sent underage...