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Love, she once said, was "the bread of my life and pen," but so too were gender, instinct, the natural world, childhood, innocence, debauchery and the throwing off of convention, social as well as literary. When she was not writing, she was re-creating herself: taking three husbands and countless lovers, both male and female; exploring the Paris demimonde; even, strapped for cash, starting a beauty business at age 58. Such a life--one that has been copiously documented, by Colette and others--presents Judith Thurman, author of Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette (Knopf; 592 pages...
...open lesbian relationships, yet believed that feminists deserved "the whip and the harem." She found her most secure love with her third husband, Maurice Goudeket, a man 17 years her junior who was a Jew, yet she was an anti-Semite and in the Nazi-occupied France of World War II displayed what Thurman generously calls a "moral lethargy." At 47, she began a serious love affair with her stepson, then 16. "A real woman is good," a man who knew her told Thurman. "Colette was not good...
...between the volume of the music and the emptiness of the lyrics only increases the sense of inanity. Also, a good deal of the latest heavy rock asserts itself by being casually dismissive of women. "She's got issues!" screams the Offspring. "She's going to change the world but she can't change me!" wails Chris Cornell. "I did it all for the nookie!" declares Limp Bizkit...
...Rocha has a lofty goal as a lyricist: "I try to write songs that engage people in a critical dialogue about fighting for and among dispossessed peoples around the world." Still, even Bob Marley wrote ballads. Could De la Rocha ever see himself writing a love song? "Every revolutionary act is an act of love," he says. "[So] every song I've ever written has been a love song." From that perspective, The Battle of Los Angeles, with its scathing guitars and whiplash lyrics, is the most romantic CD of the year...
Regardless of its scope, an accident that can be classified as nuclear--like the one at the JCO uranium-processing plant at Tokaimura, not far from Tokyo [WORLD, Oct. 11]--seems to get wide media coverage. This event, though certainly serious, was on par with other industrial accidents that occur with some frequency and generally get only local attention. Unfortunately, workers are regularly killed and injured in chemical plants, refineries and manufacturing facilities, occasionally with some release of a hazardous chemical...