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Volume I, Issue 54 June 15 - June 22, 1998
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News & Opinion It's all about conflicts. A struggling, often-homeless teen father battles his own lack of guidance. A judge fights against political correctness so that pariah Clarence Thomas can be included in legal debates. Environmentalists, government and big business come to blows over an endangered salamander. Educators butt heads over bilingual education. And Microsoft goes to war against anti-trust laws again, and again, and again. Plus: Columnists weigh in on everything from tupperware to head colds to Clinton's need for Viagra's opposite. [12 articles] |
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Film & TV Just back from vacation? Here's a summer-movie preview, in case you're not up on the latest in slick celluloid. Speaking of which: We've got three reviews of "The Truman Show," a movie that egregiously miscasts Jim Carrey as the only person in his entire world who isn't acting. A look back at Peter Weir's previous films discovers the director's path leading up to "Truman." In other reviews, here's the scoop on "A Perfect Murder," "Six Days, Seven Nights," "Kurt and Courtney," "Hope Floats," and more! [17 articles] |
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Music What musical artist defined the early '90s? Some would say it was Kurt Cobain. Others might say it was Garth Brooks. The "others" speak. Also: Thanks to the Internet, you don't have to cut miles of red tape to release an album -- you just put it online! Profiles dig into the charismatic personas behind Tito Puente, Gary Allan, and Ray Barretto. And: Album reviewers make noise about new works from Chris Knight, GVSB, Pulp, Grant Lee Buffalo, a variety of black country artists, and a heckuva lot more. [15 articles] |
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Arts & Leisure What's the best way for gays to escape the heat -- both vacation- and prejudice-wise? By escaping to the brrrroad-minded world of Iceland, of course. But travelers of all orientations can get cool in the United States, too -- as long as they don't mind hallucinating huge Krazy Straws and slabs of bacon in the claustrophobic underworld. In other summer news, here's the latest on ridiculously redundant video games, wildly weird designer drinks, and cookbooks for cuckoos. Not to mention what's new in the worlds of theatre and visual arts... [10 articles] |
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Books Is Norman Mailer's enormous ego justified? He certainly thinks so, and he's got 1,300 pages of audacious passages to prove it. How well does the iconoclast measure up? Plus: Gay writer Christian McLaughlin does a Rumplestiltskin by weaving trash into transcendence; Richard "Clockers" Price delivers another detailed racial thriller; Cormac McCarthy brings his Border Trilogy to a grandiose close; Timothy Green's "Twilight Boy" gets a thumbs down from a real boy; Octavio Paz's poems remain as powerful as ever; a non-fiction work explains why women's work is never done; and more! [10 articles] |
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Comics Come down from your Staggering Heights and get to the Red Meat of the matter with this swell set of cartoons that also includes Eye of the Beholder, K. Rat, and Random Shots. [5 comics] |
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