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...what is arguably Wilson's magnum opus, The Truly Disadvantaged, published in 1987, Wilson turned his sharp eye on "the culture of poverty," a term he does not like. Wilson described the problems of the innercity--crime, welfare dependency, drugs--but in the context of even harsher problems like joblessness, racism and oppression...
Unlike Stephen King's blockbusters, the best sellers churned out by Tom Clancy always seem as though they are written for readers who would otherwise head for the beach with the newest edition of a Jane's defense manual nestled alongside their sunblock. Only in a Clancy opus are M1A2 battle tanks, F-16 planes and C-5B Galaxy transports sprinkled through the text more liberally than punctuation...
...make one very self-conscious. Provoked by the author1s analysis of feminine self-loathing, the haunting doubts creep in, says TIME's Wendy Wasserstein. What do I look like perusing this book? Am I envious of younger women whose toned arms could lift this nearly 600-page opus in consecutive rotations while riding a mountain bike? Could it be that I am home alone with The Power of Beauty because I am frightened of expressing the full range of my repressed sexuality? Or have I come a long enough way ? from my mother, from 1960s-brand feminism, from female...
...Beauty (HarperCollins; 589 pages; $27.50) can make one very self-conscious. Provoked by the author's analysis of feminine self-loathing, the haunting doubts creep in. What do I look like perusing this book? Am I envious of younger women whose toned arms could lift this nearly 600-page opus in consecutive rotations while riding a mountain bike? Could it be that I am home alone with The Power of Beauty because I am frightened of expressing the full range of my repressed sexuality? Or have I come a long enough way--from my mother, from 1960s-brand feminism, from...
...shack of Unabomber suspect Theodore Kaczynski two weeks ago, they were overjoyed to find two old manual machines, relics of the pre- word processor, pre-Selectric age. Surely, one of these must be the antique on which the bomber pecked out his 35,000 word opus, Industrial Society and Its Future. In straight-faced leaks over the next week, the agents let it be known that, alas, the typefaces did not match, although they had high hopes for a third typewriter, discovered later. What they did not mention was that nestled next to that third machine in Kaczynski's loft...