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Salon Issue 29
August 26-30, 1996

NEWSREAL:

Friday August 30, 1996: Democrats: Undeserved success? Daily Quote: Journalistic greed.
Thursday August 29, 1996: Back Burner: Why global warming is not a campaign issue. Daily quote: Fewer cheers for democracy.
Wednesday August 28, 1996: Shelby Steele: Dole's right, affirmative action is wrong.
Tuesday August 27, 1996: Vietnam: Still the war at home. Daily Quote: Letterman's lost boy.
Monday August 26, 1996: Bill Clinton: Republican for the ages. Daily Quote: Panic in the streets.

MEDIA CIRCUS:

Friday August 30,1996: Chandler's Vanity: LA patriarch's obscene boast.
Thursday August 29,1996: The best magazines for Clinton-bashing.
Wednesday August 28,1996: Stop the presses! Women actually like Hillary!
Tuesday August 27,1996: Tears for Fears: NBC's convention cryathon.
Monday August 26,1996: Sports radio gets a life.

SNEAK PEEKS:

Friday August 30, 1996: The Last Thing He Wanted By Joan Didion (Fiction)
Knopf, reviewed by Dwight Garner
In Didion's steamy political drama, a female Washington Post reporter becomes involved in Iran-contra arms shipments.
Thursday August 29, 1996: Dark Star: An Oral Biography of Jerry Garcia By Robert Greenfield (Fiction)
William Morrow and Co., reviewed by Richard Gehr
The private life of the charismatic guitar hero demonstrates that, among other things, no man is a hero to his drug dealer.
Wednesday August 28, 1996: I'm Losing You By Bruce Wagner (Fiction)
Villard, reviewed by Dwight Garner
An arch, over-the-top satire of modern Hollywood, peppered with tart jokes about cellular phones, starlets and H.I.V.I.P.s.
Tuesday August 27, 1996: The Last Don By Mario Puzo (Fiction)
Random House, reviewed by Charles Taylor
A fat, juicy meatball of a book from the author of "The Godfather," describing the current, waning days of Mafia power and influence.
Monday August 26, 1996: Rave On By Philip Norman (Nonfiction)
Simon & Schuster, reviewed by Stephanie Zacharek
A biography of rock pioneer Buddy Holly, from the author of 1981's "Shout! The Beatles in Their Generation."

TABLE TALK:

Do grownups have best friends?
Posts of the week.

SALON REGULARS:

Swamp Fever By James Carville
Bob Dole's vision: Make America a Third World country.

Servant of the Bones tour diary By Anne Rice
The glories of Tab, Canada and metaphysics. Plus: Anne Rice answers Salon readers' questions.

The Awful Truth By Cintra Wilson
Our columnist visits Action Park and prophesies an amusement apocalypse.

Word by Word By Anne Lamott
With her final revisions done, the novelist makes a mountain out of a mole.

Unzipped By Courtney Weaver
Should politics come between potential lovers? Hash it out in the Unzipped topic in Table Talk.

Verbivore By Richard Lederer
Which president had to be trained to use the word "manure"? Be the first to answer this and other presidential questions and win a $25 gift certificate to Borders Books & Music.

The Five-Minute Mystery By Dick Lochte
The solution, and the winner to last week's mystery, "A Murder of Import."

MODERN LIFE:

The Lounge Generation By Carina Chocano
When twenty-somethings embraced '50s fabulousness, they didn't realize that, in the '90s, even kitsch can be cheapened.

BOOKS:

Kramer vs. Lamer By Dave Eggers
When it comes to describing the life of a single father, sometimes fiction is stronger than fact.

TV:

"Virtues" is no reward By Joyce Millman
From the man who knows how to raise your kids better than you do, a new series based on William Bennett's "The Book of Virtues."

MUSIC:

Something in the way By David Fenton
Eddie Vedder is incandescent -- too bad the rest of Pearl Jam won't step aside.
Text-only version.

We who are about to Bach salute you By Cynthia Joyce
"Exile on Classical Street": Will recommendations from rock stars sell their fans on classical music?
Text-only version.

MOVIES:

No laughing matter By Mary Elizabeth Williams
The problem with today's movie comedies is that they're just not funny.

The Salon Interview: Frederick Wiseman By Richard Covington
America's legendary documentary filmmaker -- director of "Titicut Follies," "High School," and "Model" -- discusses truth, privacy and following his nose.
Plus: a review of his latest film, "La Comédie Française"
By Gary Kamiya

It's a girl thing By Laura Miller
In "Girls Town" and "Foxfire" girl gangs rumble with male creeps.
Text-only version.

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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