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...sexuality. "I didn't say I was gay, I said I was in love," Evie tells her friends. For her, the relationship is not a political statement or even a major change; it's just another relationship. Her transition into the relationship is confusing. There is no common thread between her roles as sheltered straight girl and as Randy's girlfriend. Randy, whose room is plastered with gay pride posters, has always thought of herself as a lesbian. Although Evie assumes that Randy knows everything about being a lesbian, Randy has never been in love before...
Felsher collected the narrative thread so that others could weave the story (most notably the authors of Time Inc.'s three volumes of corporate history, published by Atheneum from 1968-86). At first she helped staff members cull their files to decide what should be consigned to the wastebasket and what saved. Anything of historical interest went to the fledgling archives: Henry Luce's 1922 plans for the launch of TIME; March of Time radio transcripts; files from waggish Fortune editor and publisher Eric Hodgins, author of the best seller Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House ("He didn't write...
Companies can get trademark protections for distinctive colors that distinguish their brands from others, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled today. Justice Steven Breyer, who wrote the ruling, noted trademarks have been granted for the shape of Coca-Cola bottles, the scent of sewing thread and NBC's three-chime jingle. "If a shape, a sound and a fragrance can act as symbols, why, one might ask, can a color not do the same?" he wrote. The decision reversed a lower court's denial of a trademark for green-gold dry-cleaning press pads made by a Chicago firm. Columbia...
Some observers believe prosecutors are now investigating a possible thread linking the two assassinations: a complex conspiracy within the ruling party to prevent further reform at the national level. Whether or not that theory is ever proved, President Zedillo has already done more than look honest. In a party where back-room players call many of the shots, he has served notice that he is no pushover for the powers that be in the P.R.I. In a system where acting Presidents refrain from investigating the crimes of their predecessors as a guarantee that their own peccadilloes will not fall under...
...vast country house; this convention ensures a large cast of eccentrics untroubled by middle-class worries about where the next case of Mouton-Rothschild is coming from. Credulity about miracle cures ripens among these Blimps and boozers. It is up to Wallace, whose sanity is battered but intact, to thread his way through his hangover and puzzle out a non-paranormal explanation. As he does, he rages entertainingly at a glorious array of targets, generally returning to the furies of sex. Wallace's discerning view is that women tolerate sex so as to have men around and that men, whose...