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...must accept them as individuals with the capacity for love and lust. The outspoken nature of "Clit Notes" is in part a protest against people such as Oppenheim who consider lesbians de facto excluded from moral behavior because of the "threat" they pose to America's social cohesion. SIMON J. DEDEO '00 April...
After these relatively tame outposts of noir film and literature, things start to get a little bit shady. The music industry seems to have appropriated the noir concept quite vigorously. Carly Simon's album "Film Noir," a tribute to music from the 1940's, boasts an elaborate official homepage, complete with commentary from Billboard magazine. The less-mainstream Oregon group Duoglide offers up a "listening guide" for their "Song Noir" album, which they claim sounds like "cheap hotels, smoke, neon, martinis, and danger"; how they can produce this effect with two people and a banjo is a question...
...book,A Darker Shade of Crimson,is the first in a three-part series Thomas-Graham, whose husband is also a writer with a Harvard Law degree, has contracted to write for publisher Simon & Schuster...
...Book Critics Circle Awards handed out last week. The combined company will hold 23% of what the industry calls trade books, the nearly $7 billion of nontechnical titles bought by general readers. The company, with $1.8 billion in revenue, will be double the size of the next largest house, Simon & Schuster. "We're all as surprised as the rest of the world," says Jack Romanos, a top Simon & Schuster executive. "To be perfectly honest, I'm not sure we understand what it means...
...other side of the Atlantic, Bertelsmann had been quite vocal about its intention to acquire another U.S. company. The Germans perused the profit and loss statements of Simon & Schuster, owned by Viacom, and of HarperCollins, controlled by News Corp., but couldn't make a deal. For Bertelsmann, the world's third largest media company, the merger immediately establishes a long-sought commanding presence in the U.S., the world's largest media market. "Random House is a dream for Bertelsmann," says Thomas Middelhoff, 44, who engineered the deal just six months before officially stepping into...