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Salon Issue 28
August 19-23, 1996

NEWSREAL:

Friday August 23, 1996: Moscow plays politics while Chechnya burns. Daily Quote: Lesbian squares.
Thursday August 22, 1996: Arab intellectuals on anti-U.S. autopilot.
Wednesday August 21, 1996: Tipper Gore: no more Ozzy-bashing. Daily Quote: Whitewater's cold sentence.
Tuesday August 20, 1996: Kemp's clout: GOP goes after the black vote. Daily Quote: Royals go private.
Monday August 19, 1996: GOP mastermind Ed Rollins predicts a dirty campaign and a Clinton victory.

MEDIA CIRCUS:

Friday August 23,1996: Search Voyeur: The sad truth about the Web revealed
Thursday August 22,1996: Bus stop Zen: teaser ads or message from God?
Wednesday August 21,1996: The $40 million relaunch of Condé Nast's House and Garden celebrates the joy of living vicariously
Tuesday August 20,1996: Bill's B-Day: SF's orgy fo self-love
Monday August 19,1996: The People's Republic of Conventionland by Christopher Hitchens Don't blame the GOP -- the media got the boring event it was asking for.

SNEAK PEEKS:

Friday August 23, 1996: Lying on the Couch By Irvin D. Yalom (Fiction)
Basic Books, reviewed by Katherine Whittamore
A revealing novel about therapy and its discontents, from the psychoanalyst author of "Love's Executioner."
Thursday August 22, 1996: Not Much Fun: The Lost Poems of Dorothy Parker (Fiction)
Scribner, reviewed by Susan Shapiro
A collection of 122 "lost" poems, containing some of Parker's best verse on life, love and self-pity.
Wednesday August 21, 1996: Cracks in the Iron Closet By David Tuller (Nonfiction)
Faber & Faber, reviewed by Scott Baldinger
The lives of gay and lesbian Russians, both before and after the fall of communism, told as part travelogue and part historical inquiry.
Tuesday August 20, 1996: My Summer with George By Marilyn French (Fiction)
Knopf, reviewed by Sally Eckhoff
From the feminist author of "The Women's Room," a book about a romance writer and her disastrous relationships.
Monday August 19, 1996: The Inner Elvis By Peter Whitmer (Nonfiction)
Hyperion, reviewed by Sara Kelly
Pop psychology on a grand scale, this overview of Elvis's life pays special attention to his emotional (and sexual) quirks.

TABLE TALK:

Is casual just another word for slob?
Posts of the week.

SALON REGULARS:

Swamp fever By James Carville
Up from Cro-magnonism. After getting the boot from the GOP convention floor, our columnist concludes that the Republican's kinder, gentler facelift won't be enough to win the White House.

Servant of the Bones road diary By Anne Rice
Political and spiritual musings from the bestselling novelist in the midst of her latest book tour.

Ill Humor By Ian Shoales
Copy Cats. When in doubt, our columnist simply asks himself what Brad Pitt would do.

Unzipped By Courtney Weaver
Does sex spoil friendships between men and women? Add your thoughts to the Unzipped conversation in Table Talk.

The Listress By Amy Wallace
Trophyless in Tinseltown. Match your wits against our trivia maven and you may win a $25 gift certificate from Borders Books & Music.

Five-Minute Mystery By Dick Lochte
A murder of import. Detective J.J. Legendre tracks the killer of a New Orleans shipping magnate. Be the first reader to correctly guess the culprit and motive and win a $25 gift certificate from Borders Books & Music.

MODERN LIFE:

Skillet Tossing and Funnel Cake Fever By Julia Barton
The strange world of Iowa's small town festivals.

DIGITAL CULTURE:

A history of the Net By Scott Rosenberg
Katie Hafner's "Where Wizards Stay Up Late" recalls the days when everybody wanted to name their computer Frodo.

BOOKS:

Highbrow sleaze By Laura Miller
New York's literati are turning to cheap thrills.

MUSIC:

A powerful Jones By Dwight Garner
With "I Lived to Tell It All," country legend George Jones recalls his journey across "a sea of whiskey and a mountain of cocaine."

Pop art By Mark Athitakis
Songstress Sam Phillips proves that "pop" is not (neccesarily) a dirty word.

MOVIES:

The truth about Catholic boys By Cynthia Joyce
In Ed Burns' new movie "She's the One," two Irish-American brothers wrangle with sex, love, marriage, family and the Mother Church.
Plus: An interview with director Ed Burns
And: A review of Tom Petty's original soundtrack for "She's the One."

From gutter to gallery By Glen Helfand
Art world bad boy Julian Schnabel delivers "Basquiat," a surprisingly likeable biopic about his friend, the late artist Jean Michel Basquiat.

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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