Word: randomly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Seventy-four percent of the 471 students surveyed at random said they would vote for the Clinton-Gore ticket, while 14 percent endorsed President Bush and Vice President Dan Quayle's bid for reelection. Independent candidate Ross Perot was chosen by five percent of those polled...
...million middle-aged women facing a murky life-cycle transition are, if nothing else, a major book market. Gail Sheehy's slim and chatty menopause book, The Silent Passage (Random House; $16), has been on the best-seller list for 20 weeks. Now comes Germaine Greer's dense, angry meditation, The Change: Women, Aging and the Menopause (Knopf; $24). The two books deserve credit for making menopause a word that can be uttered in mixed company, but you don't have to be perimenopausal to experience a full range of symptoms as you work through these books, from hot flashes...
...Shamen and Utah Saints on Thursday, Oct. 22 at Venus De Milo. Fear of a Flat Planet, a snowboard movie at 8 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 23 at Venus De Milo (19+). Jimmy Cliff, reggae on Sunday, Oct. 25 at Bill's and Venus De Milo. Random House of Soul/Soul Kitchen on Wednesday, Oct. 28 at Bill...
What's the source of this fascination? Is itcompletely random or something deeply rooted...
READING EVE HOROWITZ'S PLAIN JANE (Random House; $20) is like listening to a World Series no-hitter called by a taciturn announcer: the listener knows something terrific is happening out there, but he just can't hear it. The narrator is teenager Jane Singer, second daughter of a gently Jewish family from Cleveland and worshipper of Holden Caulfield. Jane tells about, among others, her mother, who divorces Jane's father and takes up the violin, and her formerly promiscuous sister, who marries an Orthodox doctor and gives birth to a boy Jane jokingly calls "the Little Messiah." Except...