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By now, psychologists have arrived at a wonderfully elastic profile of the people who attach themselves to these intellectual chain gangs: just about anybody. Applicants require only an unsatisfied spiritual longing, a condition apt to strike anyone at some point in life. Social status is no indicator of susceptibility and...
Last year Susan Klein, a recording engineer, filed a $600,000 suit alleging that NPR discriminated against her after she was found to have a precancerous condition. The other pending suits: one by a librarian, filed under the Americans with Disabilities Act; and two Equal Employment Opportunity Commission complaints by...
In fairness, O'Connor and Hixon have to deal with more distractions than Smith does. Their film, based on the Sue Miller short story, is a period piece, set in 1957, when, especially in small, middle-American towns--they inform us, with a rather touching air of discovery--lots of...
Messenger (Island Jamaica), the new album by the Jamaican-born singer Luciano, offers up something refreshingly retro. Musically, Messenger is a big, bouncy, pop album. But its lyrics are focused on the human condition--poverty, spirituality, the preservation of one's heritage. Luciano's voice is another thing that's...
Curiously, these pretentions and neuroses often belong to the author, who self-deprecates his way into a condition of lovability. In the hilarious but uncomfortable "a plague of tics," Sedaris recounts a childhood spent compulsively licking lightbulbs and sticking butter knives into outlets.