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...FRANZEN FLAMEOUT In an otherwise flawless year, Jonathan Franzen didn't win the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction this year, reports PW. That prize went posthumously to German-born novelist W.G. Sebald, who was killed in a car accident in December. The president of the NBCC is former TIME Midwest correspondent Elizabeth Taylor, who currently edits the book review and the Sunday magazine at the Chicago Tribune...
...dotcom world has gone to work for K Mart? It certainly looks that way. Refugees from Pets.com Eve.com Productopia, PlanetRX and just about every other recent flameout have landed here. Last Christmas, Bluelight.com (60% owned by K Mart; other investors include Martha Stewart) was an industry joke. Now it boasts an inventory of 30,000-plus items, more than 1 million unique visitors monthly and a massive, last-minute rollout of 3,600 Internet kiosks in 1,200 K Marts across America. CEO Mark Goldstein is blithely turning away job applicants--unheard of in employee-hungry Silicon Valley--and even...
...rest of us will be stuck with the fanfare - after being treated to such sparkling pre-match headlines as "Advantage: Williams" and "Sister Act," the face-off will get even more publicity than the undercard: a showdown between curvaceous second-round flameout Anna Kournikova and a full-length mirror...
Despite the end-of-season flameout, the 1994 season was full of positive. Harvard had a junior quarter back in control of the offense (Ferrara ) and sophomore second-in-command (Hu). The Crimson prominently featured freshmen Colby Skelton, Jeff Compas and Jason Huse...
...paradoxically, a diminution and dispersal. Hierarchies flatten out. Presidents of the U.S. and lesser leaders will be ground down, as the great families were. Scandals, like boll weevils (or special prosecutors), will chew into their administrations. Anyone's 15 minutes of fame is liable to end in a poofing flameout of indignity...