Word: mammothly
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...Conroy's mammoth new novel "jumps onto your lap like a large shaggy dog that will do anything to get your attention," says TIME critic R.Z. Sheppard. "It's friendly but still has teeth." The author populates "Beach Music" (Doubleday; 628 pages; $27.50) with memorable characters, but unfortunately burdens them with the entire bloody history of the 20th century. "Attempts to relate the madness of Vietnam to Hitler's evil are loopy," says Sheppard, and so is some of Conroy's rhetoric. The Pat Conroy who wrote "The Water Is Wide" and "The Great Santini" is conspicuously absent here, leaving...
...history of laboratory contamination that has haunted researchers working on ancient DNA. Though Cano took every precaution, laboratory samples can pick up extraneous material as easily as a jacket collects lint. Last year a team of British researchers disclosed that the DNA they thought had come from an extinct mammoth belonged to a lab technician...
What do Newt Gingrich and Stephen King have in common? Mammoth book tours. Starting this summer, a spokesman revealed today, the House Speaker will hit bookshops and bookstops in 40 U.S. cities to promote "To Renew America," the bound version of his longtime philosophy-and-civics course. The decision, oddly, comes after a political outcry forced Gingrich to turn down a $4.5 million advance from publisher HarperCollins. And yet: the dynamic Speaker, who plans four days of face time in New Hampshire next month, has lately enjoyed speculation that he'll enter the 1996 GOP presidential campaign. After today...
There will be chances to revert back to that mode, of course. Budget resolutions only set broad dollar targets for federal spending and revenues. Other committees and then both houses must vote the actual appropriations, and eventually a mammoth "reconciliation" bill must be signed by President Clinton, or passed over his veto. During the months of wrangling to come, some proposals will surely be modified. The House g.o.p. may not get as big a tax cut on upper incomes as it wants, since its $340 billion tax-cut package means it will have to cut at least that much more...
American museums in the 1840s were not like their sophisticated counterparts in Paris or London. They did not exhibit fine works of art and science. Instead they featured stuffed birds and animals, mammoth bones and skeletons, along with the portraits of famous Americans. Europeans who visited were appalled by the poor taste of the American public, much as they are now reacting to the phenomenon of Court TV. The American public, however, reveled in its entertainment. As Professor Neil Harris explains in his biography of Barnum, American society was extremely puritanical and viewed the theater with antipathy. It infected their...