Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...works hard at making The Angel of Darkness (Random House; $25.95) as impudent and beguiling as The Alienist and for the most part succeeds. The old gang is back: Miss Howard, the derringer-packing feminist detective; Moore, the boozy New York Times reporter; Cyrus, the piano-playing coachman; the redoubtable Isaacson detective brothers; and Stevie, the reformed street urchin, who later, as a grown man, narrates the adventure. (His urchin usage is not unfailingly convincing, as in "I remember reading in The Principles of Psychology, that doorstop of a book--what Professor William James had written...and which...
...largest online service also "supported" a large online anti-AOL club, especially out on the unvarnished stretches of the Net, where folks tend to be anti-censorship and anti-corporate. Cassell discovered them in a fledgling Usenet newsgroup called alt.aol-sucks that he turned into a personal crusade. His gang of malcontents anticipates the demise of the online-service provider as avidly as Rastafarians await the return of King Haile Selassie I. And slowly his anti-AOL avocation has blossomed into a career; Cassell, 34, now supports himself and his cat Tribble almost exclusively by writing about AOL's dark...
...newer shows more obviously convert secular ideas into religious ones. Matt Williams (Roseanne) co-created last spring's decent midseason replacement Soul Man, which has Aykroyd as a widowed gang member turned minister raising four kids. UPN's Good News has some nice gospel tunes but is both theologically and comically weak. Teen Angel is just another preteen T.G.I.F. show, only dumber. The Visitor is a brash but effective attempt to meld Angel and The X-Files; one of its executive producers is John Masius, creator of Angel...
...readings for the weeks on youth culture include "Delinquent Boys," an article on gang culture; a section from Freeway Females called "Working class without work: High school students in a de-industrializing economy;" and a New York Times article titled "Heavy-Metal Mania: It's More Than Music...
...little initiatives, like extending the school day and day care standards," says TIME White House correspondent Jef McAllister of the President's autumn to-do list. McAllister notes Clinton learned his biggest lesson from failed health care reform, which taught him "not to raise big initiatives that Republicans can gang up on and scuttle." With the economy and Clinton's approval ratings up ? even in the midst of scandal ? whilst welfare enrollment and crime go down, the administration thinks it has a recipe for success. "Clinton has decided, 'I want people to like me, and I want the country...