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Though routinely maligned as a decade of swinish greed, the 1980s also produced a kinder, gentler brand of storytelling, one that might be described as "eco-feminist" fiction. The central plot of this evolving subgenre has become reasonably clear. Women, relying on intuition and one another, mobilize to save the planet, or their immediate neighborhoods, from the ravages -- war, pollution, racism, etc. -- wrought by white males. This reformation of human nature usually entails the adoption of older, often Native American, ways. Ursula K. Le Guin's Always Coming Home (1985), an immense novel disguised as an anthropological treatise, contains nearly...
...these women, with Codi's help, who set out to save the town from the mining company. Kingsolver introduces other complications, particularly the fate of Hallie, who has been captured by the U.S.-supported contras. To say everything is resolved happily would be misleading, but one hint may be allowed. Anyone who thinks a giant mining concern is any match for the Grace Stitch and Bitch Club has a lot to learn about eco-feminist novels...
Brooks' story goes a little lighter on musicology and a little heavier on personal drama. Black, who writes or co-writes most of his tunes, seems to save himself for his music. Brooks, who co-wrote only three of the cuts on his new second album, No Fences, is more actor than writer; he knows how to put some spin on the standard bio. "Not knowin' nothin' about a lot of stuff, that's me," he says, before launching into a sketch of his college experience ("I was a javelin thrower; at least I wore a uniform that said...
...refuge, major production could take 10 years to gear up. Even then, the contribution to U.S. petroleum needs would be relatively small compared with other means of reducing demand and finding alternative energy sources. One Senate proposal to boost auto fuel-efficiency standards 40% in the next decade could save 10 times as much oil as the refuge might produce. And while a new oil field would eventually run dry, the savings would be ongoing...
...Illinois a father sues to force his three-year-old twins to donate bone marrow to save the life of his other son. If the courts agree, where will they draw the line...