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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...
...that reads like the pracis for a Dostoyevsky tale: "Girls are just utterly out of my reach. They won't even let me draw them." He became a cult sensation--and got lots of girls--by drawing them as monuments to his awe and fear of women. They are mammoth fertility totems; they dare the cringing Crumb cartoon male to deify or defile them. In his work Crumb does both, which has earned him no end of scorn from people with protective sensibilities...
...hunter-gatherers with a fairly developed technology. They wore animal-skin clothing and moccasins tailored with bone needles, and made beautiful (and highly efficient) laurel-leaf-shaped flint blades. Living in small groups, they constructed tents from skins, and huts from branches and (in what is now Eastern Europe) mammoth bones...