Word: randomly
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...Random House; 305 pages...
Although most students interviewed in a random survey yesterday agreed the all-male Fly Club should open its doors to women, they said they understood the logic of the state agency that dismissed the gender discrimination complaint yesterday...
...callers phone in with the amusing thoughts and opinions we would expect, a random sampling of the minds of the population which make a show like Champlain's popular. Yet amidst this humor are the troubles of modernity--racism, sexism, child abuse, rape, teen pregnancy, drugs, etc. While Bogosian's play is comic, its intention is in no way farcical. The problems of the culture exemplified in talk radio are of course very real, and the people treat seriously their calls and the opinions expressed in the show...
...Blue Steel is a weave of police story and lady-in- distress melodrama, she will eventually get that opportunity. Her target will be Eugene Hunt (Ron Silver), a Wall Street commodities trader whose romantic intensity fascinates Megan at first, before she realizes he is a psychopath. He murders at random and for pleasure; after a kill, he swathes his torso in the blood from his latest victim's sweater. "Death is the greatest kick of all," he confides to Megan. "That's why they save it for last...
WHAT I SAW AT THE REVOLUTION by Peggy Noonan (Random House; $19.95). From a former speechwriter for Presidents Ronald Reagan and George Bush, the most amusing and self-effacing political memoir likely to come out of the 1980s...