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...fast-track careers of Novelists Jay McInerney, 31, and Bret Easton Ellis, 23, have intriguing parallels. McInerney's 1984 best-selling fictional debut, Bright Lights, Big City, chronicled the downward spiral of an unnamed young writer who delves into New York City's nightclub netherworld with the help of his fast-talking best friend, Tad Allagash. Next year Ellis' Less than Zero caused a publishing sensation with its stark portrayal of sybaritic youth in suburban Los Angeles. Both writers' books are currently being made into major motion pictures. And both writers are slated to come out with new novels within...
...fraternity of international arms dealers, this Janus-like profile does not make Ghorbanifar extraordinary. That shadowy netherworld teems with other characters who might seem too garish for a remake of The Maltese Falcon. Among them: Sarkis Soghanalian, a 300-lb. Turkish-born Lebanese citizen living in Miami who specializes these days in selling helicopters to Iraq and is said to receive jars of severed human ears from clients; and Sam Cummings, a wisecracking American-born British subject operating out of Alexandria, Va., who is unabashedly -- though so far unsuccessfully -- negotiating to peddle on the world market some $5 billion worth...
PETER GABRIEL: SO (Geffen). Convex melodies surround songs that sound like a travel diary of a spiritual netherworld...
Those who do get in will usually confront a scene designed to stir the imagination. From the shark tank at Area to Danceteria's "Wuthering Heights" elevator, the purpose of the physical accoutrements is to draw the clubgoer out of quotidien life and into a netherworld of unusual activity. The nightclub's ideal role is no longer to provide singles with potential partners or to satiate the hungry dancer with the charm of the bass. Though there is concern with sex and song here, these clubs, more than anything else, attempt to capture and define the sub-culture that...
...fears that a lot of kids have: of a society of the netherworld living under my bed, of monsters living in the closet waiting to suck me in and do terrible things to me. There was a crack in the wall by my bed that I stared at all the time, imagining little friendly people living in the crack. One day while I was staring at the crack, it suddenly opened about five inches, and little pieces fell out of it. That really happened. I was afraid of clouds, the wind, trees -- there was a forest outside my window...