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...authors favor the all-or-nothing approach used by organizations like Alcoholics Anonymous because of its simplicity. The alcoholic who can learn to drink socially, or the chain-smoker who can puff occasionally, is a rare bird. Dieters can't entirely give up food, of course, but they can draw an uncompromising line when it comes to sugar...
Ford Retires Taurus Nearly 7 million sold since 1985 The last Ford Taurus rolls off an Atlanta assembly line this week. In the mid-'90s it was America's most popular car. But sales sank as Ford neglected the sedan in favor of flashier gas guzzlers...
...Publishers are finding it increasingly difficult to get publicity for new novels, even those by media-friendly writers. You'll rarely find novelists on network or even cable TV, and radio outlets also favor non-fiction. Beyond print ads, most publicity for fiction comes from book tours and soliciting reviews or author profiles, but most newspapers have cut back on space devoted to High Lit. Ironically, although Pynchon's penchant for privacy may have its origins in his personal philosophy, it's also been a great hook for journalists to cover (or uncover) him over the years...
...unrestrained and wholly stifled, Coppola herself is simultaneously attentive to historic detail and not unpleasantly anachronistic in her revisionism. Seamlessly integrating 80s post-punk in the most sublime of ways, there’s something undeniably lovely in her resuscitation of a dusty historical narrative, resisting stuffy reconstruction in favor of dreamily imaginative detail. Though ostensibly starring Jason Schwartzman in a delightfully dead-pan turn as the blundering Louis XVI, and the luminous, ethereal, and well cast Kirsten Dunst (reuniting with the director after their collaboration on “The Virgin Suicides”), special mention must be given...
...staff director, a proposal with an exception for intelligence gathering was offered to Democrats. "They said no. The result is that they have something to complain about instead of something to legislate." Why the House bill is not a slam-dunk Not surprisingly, the powerful phone companies don't favor the House's pretexting bill because of its broad (and still vague) requirements that they implement new security measures for access to customer records and file regular reports of any suspicious activity. Phone carriers would be fined if they don't comply, and they insist they already have every motivation...