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...Virginian with a deadly gift for describing human, or at least American, types. He has written about counterculture, astronauts, Wall Street and race in the New South. But the underlying theme is always manliness. Spending some 10 years writing each of his novels Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (1968), The Right Stuff (1979), The Bonfire of the Vanities (1987) and A Man in Full (1998) are decade-defining classics. They take a lot of work: Wolfe has long practiced "The New Journalism," which means, simply, that his 800-page tomes are exceptionally well-researched and appear--since...
...Cynwyd, Pa. 5 Suffix with drunk or tank 8 Gulager of The Virginian 11 Angolan rebels 13 Book-jacket blurb, maybe 14 Towel word 15 Bush won't meet with the Log __ Republicans 16 Human genome project head Dr. Francis __ 18 List-ending abbr. 20 Solitary sort 21 Beethoven's __ Elise 23 Gregory Hines' specialty 25 First to putt 26 Israeli in Palestine/Israel talks, Oded __ 28 The Wreck of the Mary __ 30 Blue or green shade 31 J.F.K. terminal listing 32 Exile of 1979 36 Heartsick one 38 Verboten 39 Apple-pie order 41 Name in court decision supported...
...Calif., a revival meeting is in progress. Cisco Systems CEO John Chambers, 50, struts across the stage wearing a gray tweed suit and preaching the gospel of the network to a packed, 8,000-strong congregation of the converted. We have made great strides, Chambers drawls in his West Virginian birch-beer-sweet voice, but we need to be ever vigilant, for around the corner, right outside this hall, lurks the enemy--Nortel, Lucent and start-up companies we've never heard of, jesters who would steal our cybercrown...
...Midwestern arena of his previous best sellers and, fairly transparently, Turow's home turf of Cook County, Ill. For proper distancing, Robbie's outlandish tale is narrated with understated sympathy by his lawyer, a squeaky-clean member of the bar who is named after his distinguished ancestor, the colonial Virginian George Mason. Robbie's foil is Evon Miller, the latest iteration of one of page and screen's most popular new types: the female FBI agent...
...come back now, you hear? I expected to read, my soul as a Southern Virginian recently lost somewhere in New England and enthusiastic to give due mourning to the loss of its native tongue...