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...most prominent hilltops, it has been warmly embraced by the cultural elite and trend-savvy, the type who would hire people to go to the supermarket to avoid the crowds but relish the opportunity to walk the steep incline in their khakis, Abercrombie blazers and sunglasses, working on a list of who first to call on their cellular phones once they reach...
Kaczynski's attorneys have good reason to be worried. This week the prosecution will begin showing the eight-woman, four-man jury what FBI agents found in April 1996 when they raided Kaczynski's Montana cabin. The list of exhibits includes the fully-armed bomb found at the shack, bomb-making parts and chemicals, carbon copies of the Unabomber's manifesto and taunting letters to his victims and the news media. There are also thousands of pages of diaries and journals that Kaczynski kept for more than two decades. Written in English, Spanish and sometimes code (which was deciphered using...
Although there is often one novel by someone like Updike or DeLillo on the Best Sellers' list, most literary novels sell modestly. But in 1997 news stories reported that many publishing houses, under bottom-line pressure from conglomerate bosses, were becoming unwilling to publish writers with modest sales...
...subject of a magazine spread that concentrates on what he wears while chopping wood? Toward the end of 1997, news coverage of the industry was less about writers with modest sales (so-called midlist writers) than about particularly attractive writers whose books had spent months on the Best Sellers' list--beneficiaries of what the critics might call the Hunk and Babe Effect...
...RAINCOATS Aired 4/28/94. The episode that ends with a takeoff on Schindler's List. Funny enough, but the cranky gang of four has already roasted a sacred cow this way. The show, though still far from formulaic, is losing the originality that first made us love...