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...megaconglomerate. Everyone talks about it, but folk singer Ani DiFranco walks it. A native of Buffalo, New York, who now lives in New York City's East Village, she is only 25 years old but has already managed to found her own record company (the not altogether ironically titled Righteous Babe Records), to release eight solo records (with total sales of more than 300,000) and, over the course of six years or so, to resist the entreaties of all the major-label suits who have sent letters, faxes and E-mail her way in their efforts to sign...
...disappearance and presumed murder of a young and idealistic clergyman--seem inevitable. As Smith tells it, the town of Wigan is a place of impacted resentments on the part of the miners and supercilious contempt on the part of the clan that owns the mine workings, ruled by a righteous and merciless cleric, Bishop Hannay. Into this nexus of bitterness and coal dust comes Jonathan Blair, a penniless, malarial and more than slightly gin-sodden African explorer. Blair, who was born in Wigan, would rather be anywhere else, but the wealthy bishop, whose hobby is African exploration--this...
...case, Helprin scolded the Clintons with harrumphing indignation. Hillary irked him even more than the President did, and he sniffed about "the White House 'Hillarys'--Highly Inexperienced Left-Liberal Academic Righteous Yuppies." Helprin's paragraphs for the Journal didn't track as well as those he saved for his novels. "Now that the bloom is off the rose, the White House oracles are thumping their naked tails in unison to protest that Whitewater is political," he wrote...
COURAGE UNDER FIRE (July 12). Denzel Washington, who 12 years ago played a G.I. under investigation in A Soldier's Story, is the righteous sleuth this time in a Desert Storm inquiry involving Meg Ryan. Solid stars, both. But when a trailer revs up its heroic music and asks, "What is courage? What is honor? What is truth?" you may ask yourself: Am I quite noble enough to see this movie...
...nominations: Tom Hanks and John Travolta. Early on, many people seemed to be expecting a repeat of the "Forrest Gump" - "Pulp Fiction" race of last year. But, I have to say, I'm happy that neither one was nominated. Hanks gave a stolid performance, unexciting and annoyingly self-righteous, as usual. Travolta was amusing in "Get Shorty" but his role gave him nothing to do; he was much better in "Pulp Fiction." An actor, however, who really should have been nominated is Jonathan Pryce, for his stellar performance as the eccentric Lytton Strachey in "Carrington...