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...identity blur in this hypnotic story of Scottish jazz trumpeter Joss Moody, who, like the real Billy Tipton, is shockingly discovered after his death to have been a woman. Told from the point of view of his grief-stricken widow Millie, his adopted son Colman and Sophie Stones, a tabloid hack hot on Moody's trail, Trumpet is about the walls between what is known and what is secret. "Every person goes about their life with a bit of perversion that is unadmittable, secretive, loathed," Kaye writes. Marred by a central inconsistency--could Joss Moody have been both such...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Trumpet By Jackie Kaye | 4/19/1999 | See Source »

...three to decline from a year ago. Yet CNN chief Rick Kaplan says the network will continue to stress the breadth of its coverage. "I don't want to put the network in a situation where if there's no news, we pick out the most tabloid story and talk about that for a whole day," he says. "Our core news viewer wants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Post-Scandal Blur | 3/22/1999 | See Source »

...Brien. Barely alighted on the hotseat, he announced, with appropriate finger gestures, that the President is hung like a cashew. The Crimson immediately pulled strings and waxed plaintive to get a one-on-one with the celebrated word-wrestler who delivered such literary punches as The Black Dahlia, American Tabloid and L.A. Confidential. Armed for the interview with nonsense and irreverence, The Crimson was taken aback to find a straight and staid character with answers to defeat over populated extremist myth in which we would like to outfit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JAMES ELLROY: CRIME PAYS | 3/5/1999 | See Source »

Last Friday, a 12-page insert placed between pages of The Crimson was distributed to students on the Harvard campus. Published by the Human Life Alliance of Minnesota Education Fund, it was entitled, "She's a Child, Not A Choice," Printed in tabloid format, this publication portrays itself as journalism. It is propaganda...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Advertising Supplement Misleading | 2/23/1999 | See Source »

Last Friday, a 12-page insert placed between pages of The Crimson was distributed to students on the Harvard campus. Published by the Human Life Alliance of Minnesota Education Fund, it was entitled, "She's a Child, Not A Choice." Printed in tabloid format, this publication portrays itself as journalism. It is propaganda...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letters | 2/23/1999 | See Source »

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