Word: paged
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...sheer variety and literary ingenuity, perhaps only Finnegans Wake (a mere 628 pages) can compare to the 3,183-page work released last week by the Office of the Independent Counsel. In fine postmodern style, it is filled with real data, everything from e-mail to grand jury testimony to phone logs. Some of our favorite things...
...century ago, the International Meridian Conference did Fiji a favor. The conferees laid out the international date line along the 180th meridian but put an eastward kink in it to keep the people of the far-flung islands of the Fijian archipelago on the same page of their day planners. Now Fijians are calling that good turn a bad one. Repudiating the date line as an artificial construct, they claim their country, which straddles the 180th line of longitude, will be the first to greet the year...
...SHOSHANNA LONSTEIN's television appearances have been limited to broadcasts of Emmy Awards pre-shows, where she could be seen adorning the arm of (now ex-) boyfriend Jerry Seinfeld. But her lack of tube time is no deterrent to TV Guide, which next week will feature a four-page article on Lonstein discussing her new resort-wear line called, appropriately, Shoshanna. TV Guide's rationale for highlighting Lonstein, according to senior editor Lisa Bernhard, is that "America first got to know Shoshanna through her relationship with one of the biggest TV stars of the past 30 years. Since then...
...with her. "I was always annoyed," says the author and Princeton professor, "when my students would ask, 'When is there going to be a movie?' I told them that a novel is not what happens before the movie. Why can't it just be a book?" Morrison knows the page and the screen are only distantly related, especially in the adaptation of a novel like Beloved--dense, elliptical, teeming with allusion and metaphor, leaping from now to then and back again, in pain. Turning a book into a film, Morrison notes, is "an ongoing battle, between the images of language...
Want to keep an eye on the parking lot or the babysitter? FoneCam from Moonlight Products is a fixed digital camera that can send color snapshots to any computer or Web page every 30 seconds. Unlike similar products that must be tethered to a PC just a few feet away, the $300 FoneCam (available at fonecam.com simply plugs into a phone jack and uses its built-in modem to send pics to any computer across the country. Software is included to let owners schedule the frequency of photo transmissions...