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...Fielding got caught in the vise of a lucrative contract and a punishing deadline, and the new book has an air of desperation. With the same diary format, complete with alcohol and cigarette logs, and the same wacky circle of friends, Bridget seems to be living her own private Groundhog Day, unable to learn from her mistakes, move forward or pull herself together the tiniest bit. The plot--and is there ever a plot--is driven by her on-again, off-again romance with Mark Darcy. The fact that the reader is so much smarter and more observant than Bridget...
...shadow Groundhog always sees
...incarceration. Not allowed to leave his home, and subject to round-the-clock surveillance by a battery of 16 cameras webcasting to computers around the globe, 26-year-old Dallas resident DotComGuy (known as Mitch Maddox before he changed his name) has turned himself into a sort of wired groundhog, vowing to spend an entire year ordering everything he needs to live, from food to furniture, over the Internet. Like a switched-on Thoreau at a virtual Walden Pond, he devised the stunt to teach mankind that the age of e-commerce is here--and that it is good...
...groundhog convention," Friedman says, going with it. "You can't go wrong with a groundhog convention...
This Thursday afternoon the e-Cards crew is sitting around a conference table, trying to make one another laugh. Today's subjects are office humor and holidays in February. A "Valentine's Day, My Ass" card for lonely hearts? Possibly. A motivational groundhog speaker? Probably. A support group for obscure Presidents? "'I passed the Smoot-Hawley tariff, but do I even get a tire ad?'" Absolutely...