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Is it possible, then, the Garrison Keillor's newest volume of short stories, entitled The Book of Guys(easy to understand, no big words), is actually a brilliant work of metabuffoonery, a calculated and strategic maneuver meant to keep the critics guessing? One would like to think so. Why else...

Author: By Jay C. Shafer, | Title: Why Can't You Guys Just Get It Together? | 2/10/1994 | See Source »

No one will ever know for sure why the billion-dollar Mars Observer spacecraft permanently lost contact with NASA last August, just before it was to begin its surface-mapping mission. But an investigative panel has concluded that the problem was most likely a fuel leak and not, as first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Week January 2-8 | 1/17/1994 | See Source »

Melissa Deal Forth, 40, a filmmaker in Atlanta, will never forget the day her husband Chris Deal died: it was exactly one year after he had been diagnosed with acute lymphocytic leukemia. The last months had been gruesome: treatments that could not save him, nights when she could not sleep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Angels Among Us | 12/27/1993 | See Source »

This maneuver may be unduly superstitious, particularly since Doyle, 35, has been thriving in Joyce's shadow. His first three novels earned impressive reviews and sales, and two of them -- The Commitments and The Snapper (see CINEMA) -- have received successful screen adaptations. And in October, Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Making Mischief in Dublin | 12/6/1993 | See Source »

But Washington is relatively lax compared to other states. At least I can mail my ballot myself, anytime until election day. A friend from Memphis had to have her ballot signed by someone in the post office before she could mail it off. And on the one occasion that my...

Author: By Lori E. Smith, | Title: A Right, a Duty, a Privilege and a Chore | 10/25/1993 | See Source »

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