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Salon Issue 21
June 24-28, 1996

NEWSREAL:

Friday June 28, 1996: Democrats' gentle come-on. Daily Quote: Demi's Golden Globes.
Thursday June 27, 1996: The mother of all Clinton scandals? Quote of the Day: In God's hands.
Wednesday June 26, 1996: Behind the latest terrorist strike. Quote of the Day: Dole in the deli.
Tuesday June 25, 1996: Food's hot zone. Quote of the Day: Dole in the deli.
Monday June 24, 1996: Hillary: Keep talking to Eleanor and Mahatma. Black leaders lost in the malign fog of race. Quotes of the Day: President Unabomber; childhood's end.

MEDIA CIRCUS:

Friday June 28,1996: E-mail Confidential: The Internet's Walter Winchell.
Thursday June 27,1996: Topless body found on headless magazine!!
Wednesday June 26,1996: Irony showdown: "Beavis" butts heads with "Talk Soup".
Tuesday June 25,1996: Kinsley's Slate debuts: We'll wait for 1.1.
Monday June 24,1996: In praise of rear ends: Magazines' back pages are the best.

SNEAK PEEKS:

Friday June 28, 1996:
Rhythm and Noise by Theodore Gracyk (Nonfiction)
A provocative and illuminating study of the aesthetics of rock, from a philosophy professor who takes on rock's intellectual detractors.
Thursday June 27, 1996:
The Gettin' Place by Susan Straight (Fiction)
The patriarch of an extended black family comes under siege when two murdered white women are found on his land.
Wednesday June 26, 1996:
The World at Night by Alan Furst (Fiction)
In this spy novel, a complacent, skirt-chasing bourgeoise film director finds love and a conscience in Paris, 1940.
Tuesday June 25, 1996:
The Shadow of Desire by Rebecca Stowe (Fiction)
A young academic fascinated with obscure women pays her annual Christmas visit to her family, dominated by a jovial, delusive father.
Monday June 24, 1996:
Playing the Future by Douglas Rushkoff (Nonfiction)
The next generation of "screenagers," the author argues, can teach us how to prosper in a TV and computer-dominated culture.

TABLE TALK:

Has Hollywood hijacked your favorite author?
Posts of the week.

SALON REGULARS:

Word by Word By Anne Lamott
Our columnist delivers the raw truth to new grads: overachievement is never enough, and B+ is just fine.

The Awful Truth By Cintra Wilson
At New York's Museum of Modern Art, Picasso inspires an idiot epiphany.

Unzipped By Courtney Weaver
Dave wants to settle down, but the women he meets just want a quick fling.

Verbivore By Richard Lederer
So there's only two words that end in "-gry." Our wordplay maven offers a variety of other letter-perfect puzzlers.

DIGITAL CULTURE:

Survival of the Rudest By Mary Elizabeth Williams
Does the Net make us nasty? Reflections from a veteran online host.

E-mail from the Underground By Andrew Leonard
Wired's wacky IPO: Hacker uncovers secret exchange between Goldman Sachs bankers.

BOOKS:

The Salon Interview: Calvin Trillin By Laura Miller
In his new book, "Messages From My Father," the food writer and humorist gets serious about fathers and sons.

MODERN LIFE:

Honeymoon in Mongolia By Carol Lloyd
A marriage made on the steppes is not necessarily one made in heaven.

MOVIES:

Chasing Demons By Laura Miller
In "Butterfly Kiss," a lesbian couple -- one demented vagabond and one meek clerk -- move to their own mad music.

Welcome to the Gaul House By Mary Elizabeth Williams
Disney's "Hunchback of Notre Dame" may not hew to Victor Hugo's original, but it has a tragic stature of its own.

MUSIC:

Thank God, He's a Country Boy By Sam Hurwitt
With his new "Road to Ensenada," Lyle Lovett, the country singer for people who hate country music, continues to transcend his genre.

Riffs from a Mutant Axe By Milo Miles
Charlie Hunter brings jazz guitar into the '90s, without apology.

COMICS:

Tom Tomorrow: This Modern World.
Carol Lay: Story Minute
Keith Knight: The K Chronicles
Ruben Bolling: Tom, The Dancing Bug
 









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