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...told by Larry, a Montana boy who leaves his father's house near the Teton River to live with his mother in Seattle. On the road with his flirty aunt in her pink Cadillac, Larry seems a bit like Huck Finn rafting to new adventures. But Doris is no runaway Jim. Free in body and spirit, she drinks while driving, talks to dangerous characters in strange bars and dispenses seasoned opinions that underscore the title of the book. On why Larry's mom and dad separated: "They know too much about each other. They have to figure out what...
Somebody else says, "How about if we have a kid seeing something really scary out a second-story window, but his parents don't believe him, and then the scary thing does its dirty work?" Swell: a dinosaur in The Lost World, a runaway cruise ship in Speed...
...latest, but surely not the last, case in point is Speed 2: Cruise Control, unworthy successor to the last action movie that ran as much on wit as it did on special effects. That film was in touch, however goofily, with some of our everyday anxieties--a runaway bus on a screwed-up freeway is not entirely beyond our ken. At the very least we can imagine being caught in the resulting traffic...
...appetite of boys and young men for so-called twitch games, like the bloody, light-speed shoot-'em-ups Quake and Doom. Why the sudden interest in what young women may want? In a word: Barbie. Mattel last fall released a disc called Barbie Fashion Designer that was a runaway best seller, proving once and for all that if the pitch is right, the girls will play. "There's always been an interest in marketing for girls," says Suzanne Groatman, children's software buyer for the retail giant CompUSA. "Barbie just exploded the market. People are looking at this year...
...AVIV, Israel: Labor has a new point man. Early projections indicate that Ehud Barak is the runaway winner in Labor's primary election over outspoken dove Yossi Beilin and two others. Barak, 55, is a charismatic former military chief whose career and politics closely resemble those of the late Yitzhak Rabin. Much like Rabin in his own 1992 primary against Shimon Peres, Barak ran less on policy than on the promise that he alone could unseat Benjamin Netanyahu as Prime Minister and return Labor to power. His party has long shared Barak's optimism. In April, at the height...