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...more personalized eulogies and multiple tributes from family and friends. While Australia and New Zealand remain the only countries where celebrancy has a firm foothold, fledgling movements have also arisen in the U.S. and Britain. "Funerals are in a state of flux," says Melbourne celebrant Dally Messenger, a movement pioneer. "Clergy have responded to the stimulus of competition. In my opinion, the best funerals in the world happen in Melbourne...
...many people remember the shocking presidential election of 1940, when aviation pioneer and confirmed isolationist Charles Lindbergh defeated Franklin Delano Roosevelt. But Philip Roth imagines it with eery clarity in The Plot Against America (Houghton Mifflin; 400 pages), out Oct. 5, an all too plausible work of counter-history in which Roth re-creates his New Jersey childhood in Lindbergh's America. On taking office, Lindbergh promptly cozies up to Hitler, making good on his campaign promise to keep the U.S. out of World War II, then goes on to pass the (entirely fictional) Homestead Act of 1942, which systematically...
...pioneer superdads, these men have few role models. Not terribly long ago, a man went out into the world and worked alongside other men, and when he came home, the rest of the family busied itself with making him comfortable. Now, as with women of a generation ago, men are experiencing the notion of a second shift, and they are doing so at a time when downsizing, outsourcing and other vagaries of the economy have made that first shift feel disquietingly unstable. Says Dr. Scott Haltzman, 44, a psychiatrist in Barrington, R.I., with many male clients under 45: "Historically...
DIED. LEON GOLUB, 82, U.S. artist who painted monumental, brutal figures symbolizing the destructive nature of human ambition and who was hailed as a pioneer during the Neo-Expressionist era of the 1980s; in New York City. When he began his career in the 1950s, his subjects were largely mythological, but by the 1970s, he had moved into politics with the anti--Vietnam War series Assassins, and he continued in that vein in the 1980s with images of global military violence called Mercenaries...
...usual concoction of water and dynamite, including 119 fires in Kuwaiti wells torched by Iraq in 1991; in Houston. After World War II, the native Texan returned home from a two-year stint in the Army's bomb demolition unit to take a job with Myron Kinley, a pioneer of well-fire and blowout control. Adair later started his own business, and his exploits (an explosion in South Texas once propelled him 50 ft. in the air, and he emerged unscathed) inspired the 1968 John Wayne film Hellfighters...