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Summer Films: Initial Sizzle Soon Turns To Fizzle
by By Sharon Waxman, in Washington Post, Aug 30, 2001.
"It's like everything in the culture: Get it quickly."

Where Film Succeeds And Human Emotion Reigns
by By Stephen Holden, in New York Times, Aug 31, 2001.
Genuine intimacy and emotional spontaneity in movies, of course, haven't disappeared. They've just crawled off into a corner and infiltrated television.

Bad News
by By Bob Whitby, in New Times Broward-Palm Beach, Aug 30, 2001.
Boca's hometown newspaper, once a paragon of journalism, has become a laughing stock.

McNuggets To Join Moon Rocks At Air And Space
by By Paul Farhi, in Washington Post, Aug 29, 2001.
Gen. John R. Dailey, director of the Air and Space Museum, said the institution chose McDonald's based on its reputation for fast service, low prices and brand name recognition, especially among international visitors and young people.

Sex And The Open Stacks
by By Kathy Wilson, in Salon, Aug 29, 2001.
As an unsuspecting adolescent searching my local library, I was lured into the smoky den of literature by AnaÔs Nin's erotica.

Chicagoans Are Reading The Same Book At The Same Time
by By Stephen Kinzer, in New York Times, Aug 28, 2001.
The book they have chosen is Harper Lee's powerfully anti-racist novel, "To Kill a Mockingbird," which won a Pulitzer Prize in 1961.

Undressed For Success?
by By Geoff Boucher, in Los Angeles Times, Aug 28, 2001.

Forecasts Of An E-Book Era Were, It Seems, Premature
by By David D. Kirkpatrick, in New York Times, Aug 28, 2001.
The tepid demand comes as no surprise to some bibliophiles, since printed books still work just fine.

The Write Stuff
by By Christina Hoff Sommers, in The Women's Quarterly, Summer 2001.
Schools should teach the lost art of penmanship.

The View From A Juror's Chair
by By D. Graham Burnett, in New York Times, Aug 26, 2001.
The culmination of this ordeal — 12 idiosyncratic individuals thrown into tight quarters for 66 hours of sequestered deliberations — pushed civics into a realm normally reserved for extreme sports.

Suitably Attired
by By William Hamilton, in The Atlantic, Sep 2001.
Well-dressed men have worn the same thing for a century now.

Black Holes
by By Julian Burnside, in The Vocabula Review, Aug 2001.
It is a curious thing about the English language, that although it has a vast vocabulary and rich idiomatic variations, it lacks words for some common and useful ideas.

Digital Renaissance: Good News, Bad News
by By Henry Jenkins, in MIT Technology Review, Sep 2001.
Perhaps the big city newspaper has simply outlived its usefulness.

A Chinese Infusion Of Tranquillity
by By Robert Smaus, in Los Angeles Times, Aug 23, 2001.
Modeled after late 14th century walled gardens in southeast China, the classical Chinese garden is not at all what you might expect a garden to be, and it is certainly unlike any other in this country.

How To Say You're Sorry: A Refresher Course
by By Susan McCarthy, in Salon, Aug 23, 2001.
These days, apologies are everywhere in the national and international news. Yet few nations or individuals know how to make one.

How Do They Do It?
by By Stuart Jeffries, Ian Traynor, Jonathan Watts, Jane Martinson, Jo Tuckman, and Kate Connolly, in The Guardian, Aug 22, 2001.
Moscow has mosaics and chandeliers. Paris has works of art and occasional film screenings. Tokyo has perfectionist drivers in white gloves. So why does London have only overcrowding, delays and squalor?

Lay Off Men, Lessing Tells Feminists
by By Flachra Gibbons, in The Guardian, Aug 14, 2001.
Novelist condemns female culture that revels in humiliating other sex.

Thrill-Ride Into Debt
by By Cheung Chi-Fai, in South China Morning Post, Aug 20, 2001.
Ranking 30th among the world's amusement parks, Ocean Park is world-class, he says. It is also unique, as it accommodates aquarium facilities and amusement-park rides at the same site. But uniqueness carries a price.

Must People Lie? Yes, Absolutely. Or Is That A Lie?
by By Edward Rothstein, in New York Times, Aug 18, 2001.
Is there anything more boring than thinking about lies? What is there left to learn?

The Problem With Salon Isn't Money
by By ken Layne, in Online Journalism Review, Aug 17, 2001.
The closing of Salon.com will mean nothing more than the closing of Salon.com.

Talking To Oneself
by By Joseph Epstein, in The New Criterion, Summer 2001.
I have been keeping a journal for more than thirty years, and if you were to ask me why I continue to do so, the best answer I can offer is that I cannot stop now.

Jumping The Laugh Track
by By Howard Rosenberg, in Los Angeles Times, Aug 17, 2001.
Comedies with laugh tracks or electronically sweetened laughter came in with the flying reptiles of television's Jurassic era and will still be here, heehawing at peeling wallpaper, long after the rest of us are pushing up daisies.

Amazon's Little-Known Botton 10
by By Associated Press, Aug 16, 2001.
They are the coldest of the cold, the ninth circle of online retail, the unselected among "Earth's Biggest Selection."

Me? I'm No Wunderkind
by By Judith Mackrell, in The Guardian, Aug 15, 2001.
At 28, British choregrapher Christopher Wheeldon has already conquered New York; now he is invading Edinburgh and London. And all because of an ankle injury.

In Multiplex Age, Even Blockbusters Find Fame Fleeting
by By Rick Lyman, in New York Times, Aug 13, 2001.
Something profound is happening at the megaplexes, and it has little to do with what appears on the screen. Rather, it is about how those movies are being seen.

The Great English Divide
by By Stephen Baker and Inka Resch, with Kate Carlisle and Katharine A. Schmidt, in BusinessWeek, Aug 13, 2001.
In Europe, speaking the lingua franca separates the haves from the have-nots.