Word: madness
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...thought that fulfillment would come from an internship or a temp job and a few weekends at the beach. I had no idea that I would also spend the next three months destroying mythical monsters, cavorting with Greek gods and repeatedly saving the world from the schemes of a mad scientist...
...Kafkas, it's a mad scramble. Gene agreed to early acceptance at Colby College in Maine, and half his $37,000 first-year tuition, room and board is due Aug. 1. But the Kafkas' savings have fallen more than 50%, to just $16,000. The Kafkas are applying for student loans and lining up some backup plans, like arranging a home-equity line of credit and postponing a home-remodeling project. "We're not in a negotiating position," says Robert, 54, a college administrator in Los Angeles...
...zipper" ad, News doesn't play like old news. Like E.R., whose frenzied pace it emulates, News nails the jargon and the adrenaline rush of its subject. And the series pays admirable attention to the dangers of synergy-spawned conflicts of interest and corporate meddling in today's merger-mad media...
...small in the saddle. Those cattle they round up have become politically incorrect: for many, meat is an obscene cuisine. It's not just the additives and ailments connected with the consumption of beef, though a dish of hormones, E. coli bacteria or the scary specter of mad-cow disease might be effective enough as an appetite suppressant. It's that more and more Americans, particularly young Americans, have started engaging in a practice that would once have shocked their parents. They are eating their vegetables. Also their grains and sprouts. Some 10 million Americans today consider themselves...
...novel begins with the acerbic Dawn Stone, a self-described British "features hack," who takes a magazine job in Hong Kong during the heady days of 1995. Dawn fits in perfectly in Hong Kong's money-mad atmosphere, and Lanchester cuts loose, describing her rapid transformation from wry observer to gleeful participant to seductee, a metamorphosis that culminates when Dawn quits to do P.R. work for her shady billionaire Hong Kong boss. Not that the change from British tabloid hack to media conglomerate shill represents a measurable step-down in ethics...