Word: journeyer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...anachronistic allusion to Ray Charles' future rock hit will tickle the cognoscenti. The book teems with other familiar Pynchonesque diversions: a talking dog that appears near the beginning and again near the end of the story; a four-ton cheese called "The Octuple Gloucester"; a journey by Mason to the inhabited center of the earth; cameo appearances by a number of 18th century notables, including Benjamin Franklin, George and Martha Washington (who sing a duet) and Dr. Samuel Johnson, accompanied by his biographer-to-be James Boswell...
...contemporary readers, beguiled by everything electronic, willing to do the hard, head-scratching work that Pynchon's uncompromising prose demands? Perhaps not; tough books are unfashionable at the moment. But those who beg off the long journey through Mason & Dixon will deprive themselves of a unique and miraculous experience...
Because eyewitness accounts indicate that Button was in control of the plane for most of its journey, his disappearance has sparked some wild theories. Among them: that he was planning to drop the 500-lb. bombs he was carrying (which the Air Force believes were not armed) on the Denver courthouse where the Timothy McVeigh trial is under way; or that the rugged Warthog would be a perfect plane to sell to a militia unit. There were reports, on CNN and elsewhere, that Button may have been suicidal because he was upset over the recent conversion of his mother...
Charles Wang has been to E-mail hell, and returned to tell the tale. His journey there began innocently enough when, as chairman of Computer Associates International, a software company, he first heard how quickly his employees had embraced their new electronic-mail system. They were messaging one another like crazy. "I said, 'Wonderful,'" recalls Wang. "And I also said, 'Let's check into how people are using...
...when Hillary Clinton received a Grammy Award for her spoken version of her book, It Takes a Village. The market for audiobooks is booming. That may be, in part, because they are compact and convenient and offer pseudo intimacy with sages and celebrities. The forthcoming John F. Kennedy: A Journey to Camelot by Paul Werth will be read by Sidney Poitier and Caroline Kennedy. Slightly less ritzy (intended, perhaps, to be played in Dodge pickups instead of Lexuses) is Waylon Jennings' rendition of Waylon: An Autobiography. To those who scoff at such books as "ear candy," Seth D. Gershel, publisher...