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Salon Issue 24
July 15-19, 1996
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Thursday July 18, 1996: Hot Zone: Legalizing prostitution in Mexico. Daily Quote: The GOP's gender gap. Wednesday July 17, 1996: Hot Zone: Legalizing prostitution in Mexico. Daily Quote: The GOP's gender gap. Tuesday July 16, 1996: Taking the plunge: Why high-tech stocks are crashing. High-wire act: Holding off on Helms-Burton. Daily quote: How to be happy. Monday July 15, 1996: Lifeline: A ruined enclave survives via the Internet. Daily Quote: Wealth and poverty. Thursday July 18,1996: Liar Joe Klein: A disgrace to journalism. MSNBC: Not ready for prime time. Wednesday July 17,1996: The Real World: MTV funÉ or the ninth circle of Hell? Tuesday July 16,1996: Millennium, dude! The world's first surfin' futurist. Monday July 15,1996: In the Valley of the News Babes. Simon & Schuster, reviewed by Charles Taylor A witty and expertly reported look at how producers Jon Peters and Peter Guber became the heads of Columbia studios, and lost $3 billion of Sony's money. Thursday July 18, 1996: Cadillac Jukebox by James Lee Burke (Fiction) Hyperion, reviewed by Elizabeth Pincus The quixotic detective Dave Robicheaux travels to Mexico to solve the 30-year-old murder of a beloved Civil Rights figure. Wednesday July 17, 1996: Paper Wings by Marly Swick (Fiction) Harper Collins, reviewed by Stephanie Zacharek In this novel about middle-class family life set in the 1960s and '70s, a woman's obsession with the Kennedys has troubling undercurrents. Tuesday July 16, 1996: Plastic: The Making of a Synthetic Century By Stephen Fenichell (Nonfiction) Harper Business, reviewed by David Futrelle An lively cultural history of plastic, from its invention in the 1860s through its myriad (and often controversial) applications today. Monday July 15, 1996: Omon Ra by Victor Pelevin (Fiction) Farrar, Straus & Giroux, reviewed by Dwight Garner. In this somewhat surreal fable that satirizes the Soviet space program, a young cosmonaut is asked to sacrifice his life for his country. TABLE TALK: Posts of the week. SALON REGULARS: Our columnist gets in touch with his own inner Philbin. Regis, that is.
Unzipped By Courtney Weaver
Listress By Amy Wallace BOOKS: Nancy Friday talks about beauty, witches and the importance of good bedroom manners. TV: Rosie O'Donnell makes daytime TV fun again. ISSUES AND POLITICS: The award-winning novelist ("A Winter's Tale") who penned Bob Dole's Senate resignation speech talks about war, death, politics and lies. MODERN LIFE: On location among the heroin addicts of San Francisco's Tenderloin district, with documentary filmmaker Steven Okazaki. Video clips included. MUSIC: Ten new classical music recordings that even a novice will want to own.
Dead not gone By Milo Miles
MOVIES: "Trainspotting" shoots and scores By Charles Taylor "Trainspotting" -- the much-hyped hip movie of the season -- delivers the goods. Train conductor By Anne Burns The director who dared to violate the Just Say No code.
Bon-bon appetit By Laura Miller COMICS:
Tom Tomorrow: This Modern World. |