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Book Reviews
Manhattanites find peace in bucolic Catskills
There once was a popular television series about an upscale New York couple who bought a farm and moved to the country. Whatever you do, don't mention "Green Acres" to Jim Mullen. The columnist for "Entertainment Weekly" has heard all the Hooterville jokes he can stand. That's because he and his wife, a relatively upscale New York couple, bought a farm and moved to the country.
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Review: Rock women earn fine 'Place' in history
It all begins with Bessie Smith and runs through "Mother" Maybelle Carter and Patsy Cline to Diana Ross, Aretha Franklin and Tina Turner, Patti Smith, Madonna, Bikini Kill, and Janet Jackson, finally arriving at Lauryn Hill and Missy Elliott.
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Review: A biting history on the roots of 'Jaws'
"What could possibly equal being eaten alive by a monster fish?"
These words, from H. David Baldridge's 1974 paperback "Shark Attack" -- a collection of killer fish stories -- get right to the meat of why humans are morbidly fascinated with sharks. For starters, there is the evolutionary economy of its biological design: the shark eats, it sleeps, it eats some more. Then, of course, there is its simple relentlessness. The shark -- most infamously, the great white -- has come to represent the paragon of a remorseless, invincible eating machine.
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Review: 'Dog Bites Man' lacks bite
An author takes a big risk in attempting to tell a novel-length inside joke. There's a chance that readers who don't get it will resent being left on the outside. And even those readers who do get it might take umbrage at being the butt of the jibe.
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Review: Schorr's 'Staying Tuned' comes in clear
To the first generation of television viewers, he was the man in Moscow or Berlin, providing a fever chart of Cold War tensions. To the current generation of news consumers, he is the voice of history and perspective on developments at home and abroad. To journalists, Daniel Schorr is something of an icon. To broadcast executives, he is remembered mostly as a pain in the neck.
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