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...scene ogling her from his bathroom window after languishing in a warm tub. Fortunately, despite one or two other such moments--not to mention an opening-credits sequence in which the camera pans over crinkled-up satin--this Pride and Prejudice never quite veers into Sidney Sheldon territory...
...done, and The Horse Whisperer has climbed the best-seller lists, alongside Michael Crichton and Sidney Sheldon. It's something of a vindication for Evans, since most reviewers made their own pitchfork fondue out of his prose. ("Sentimentally bloated, and wholly devoid of authentic feeling," said the New York Times.) The similarity to another huge-selling novel about a mid-life romance caused some wags to dub it The Horses of Madison County. Evans is rankled by the comparisons to Robert James Waller's best seller. "Both books are about middle-aged people who fall in love...
Though no one doubts the historical value of these stories, their content places them with Danielle Steele and Sidney Sheldon as great beach reads. Alcott herself put it best in her journal of 1862: "I enjoy romancing to suit myself, and though my tales are silly, they...
Such reasoning may at first seem counterintuitive. In a nation whose public philosophy resonates with rhetoric of revolution, defiance of authority is taken as prima facie evidence of a political action. Yet as political scientist Sheldon Wolin reminds us, the proper province of the political is the shared regulation of our common life--not the willy-nilly pursuit of private passions and interests. Generation X cannot redeem its shameful record of political apathy with concerts and parties...
...other museums watched with interest, on Sept. 16 Denver auctioned off 1,500 items--to the glee of bargain hunters and the dismay of some descendants of the museum's benefactors. Says George Neubert, director of the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery in Lincoln, Nebraska: "What Denver has done is quite new and very bold." And lucrative. The auction raised...