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...didn't have to go construct anything. They didn't have to rent a truck. They didn't have to load the truck. They didn't have to drive it to some place. All they had to do was hijack an airplane." They made it look so easy, you wondered if the only reason the U.S. has not seen a hijacking in 20 years was because hardly anyone was trying. It's a wonder why not; the Microsoft flight simulator and Fly! II--the two most popular simulators for personal computers--allow you to pretend to fly between the World...
...seven minutes past the hour, when I sit ensconced in whatever happens to be passing for a theater, and the lights begin to dim. There’s a split-second when I’m not sure if my eyes are playing tricks on me—I wonder if in my eagerness for the show’s start I have seen a change in lighting that did not actually occur— but as the darkness creeps over the theater, I remember to exhale. Some people clap at this point, probably relieved that the wait is over...
Some might find it a little tricky to relate to the woes of “Boy Girl Wonder,” a simple she-don’t-love-me song with echoes of “Why Must I be a Teenager in Love” in its plaintive chorus. However, fewer teenagers—even 21st century ones—grieve, “But he’s got a real one, and mine’s from the store.” The novelty of “Ganja,” a song about...
...published in my fifteen years at FSG [Farrar, Straus & Giroux],” praise not to be taken lightly; the New York Times ran feature articles in both its magazine and book review; and the excitement led Time magazine, that fearless observer and maker of mainstream America to wonder if the book might be “the Next Big American Novel,” “that rare thing, a literary work that everybody’s reading...
...didn't have to go construct anything. They didn't have to rent a truck. They didn't have to load the truck. They didn't have to drive it to some place. All they had to do was hijack an airplane." They made it look so easy, you wondered if the only reason the U.S. has not seen a hijacking in 20 years was because hardly anyone was trying. It's a wonder why not; the Microsoft flight simulator and Fly! II--the two most popular simulators for personal computers--allow you to pretend to fly between the World...