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...last time their works were similarly bound together. Carol Shields' Dressing Up for the Carnival (Viking; 210 pages; $23.95), her third book of tales, is of the latter, grab-bag variety, offering 22 pieces, almost all of them culled from previous publications. And yet the result is not as random or eclectic as might be anticipated. Shields, whose novel The Stone Diaries won a 1995 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, displays in all her writing, long or short, a consistently whimsical ruefulness toward her characters and the dilemmas they face, some of which, in this collection, are engagingly bizarre...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fashion Statements | 5/29/2000 | See Source »

Christopher Buckley's most recent book is Little Green Men (Random House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wireless Shrugged | 5/29/2000 | See Source »

After a week of this torture, I more or less ran out of my house screaming. Perambulating essentially at random, I vowed to walk until my dizziness died...

Author: By Jeremy N. Smith, | Title: The Long and the Short of It | 5/26/2000 | See Source »

...event, the product of three months work, was composed of what the BJs called a "random" collection of talent--from a reverse stripper (who strode out wearing a g-string, and then sexily re-dressed) to the men's basketball team to the women's a cappella group, The Pitches (whose members broke into a catfight...

Author: By Thomas J. Castillo, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: BJs Shine in Unorthodox Show | 5/15/2000 | See Source »

...here's the dilemma. I still haven't figured out these Asian names. Is your official name Mei Pin Phua or Phua Mei Pin? We've tried to settle this but you always change the subject with a random piece of advice like, "Do not mistake Honey Mustard for Creamy Caesar in the dining hall." So to answer your question, your father is either Mr. Mei Pin or Mr. Phua...

Author: By Soman S. Chainani, | Title: Soman's In The [K]now | 5/12/2000 | See Source »

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