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The Classic 'Good Girls'
Whether they're tied to chairs or swinging through the jungle to save the day, the women depicted in the "good girl art" of comic books share two traits. The term, says author Ron Goulart of Ridgefield, doesn't always depict good girls and it's not...Tags: Arts, Books and Magazines, Maureen O'Sullivan, Television, Ridgefield
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Quirky science fiction writer
Thomas Disch, who has been called one of the most important science fiction writers of his generation, died Saturday in New York. Friends said Mr. Disch, 68, was found dead inside his apartment. He had shot himself in the head, according to the city's...Tags: New York
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Thomas M. Disch, 68; prolific science- fiction author
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterEven in the genre of science fiction, writer Thomas M. Disch was considered unconventional. The strange new worlds he created were an odd mix: dark and horror-filled, humorous and playful. His work outfoxed readers' expectations, one critic said, and...Tags: Books and Magazines, Minnesota, Iowa, Books, New York
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TV Highlights
Series ■■ ■■ The Bachelorette DeAnna accepts a proposal that will change her life forever. (N) 8 p.m. Followed by reunion special at 10 p.m. ■■■ ■■ History Detectives A flag that may have been...Tags: Samuel L Jackson, NBC, Los Angeles, Medical Specialization, Armed Forces
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Book reviews for kids
"Journey to the Center of the Earth" Jules Verne This wonderful adventure is filled with eye-opening experiences. A great professor finds a book by an author whose books were supposedly all burned. It takes the professor and his nephew days to decode...Tags: Los Angeles, Los Feliz, Jules Verne, Books and Magazines, Charter Schools
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"Black & White," by Lewis Shiner
Chicago Tribune NewspapersLewis Shiner's body of work brings to mind a coloring book whose margins have been gleefully scrubbed away by a box of crayons. "Frontera," his 1984 debut novel, cast the author as a pioneer of cyberpunk; "Slam" (1990) explored the heady mixture of...Tags: Newspapers, Texas, Death and Dying, North Carolina
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Family ties
Sun reporterShiva kept refusing his wife, Parvati's, pleas to give her a child, so she went by herself into the forest. She mixed together sandalwood paste and bath oil and flakes from her own body, and fashioned them into a baby, a son, and she made him just the way...Tags: Health and Safety at School, University of Maryland, Books and Magazines, Festive Event, New York Times
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Mirroring JonBenet story
Special to the SunMy Sister, My Love: The Intimate Story Of Skyler Rampike By Joyce Carol Oates Ecco / 562 pages / $25.95 Social commentary has long been the hallmark of the best fiction. Many literary classics, among them Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter,...Tags: Upton Sinclair, Reviews, John Updike, Celebrity, Charles Dickens
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A history of U.S. places names and a novel of four generations of troubled women
Names on the Land
A Historical Account of Place Naming in the United States
George R. Stewart
New York Review Books: 544 pp., $19.95 paper
"Names on the Land" was first published in 1945 and has remained a classic in the field of onomastics -- the...Tags: Pennsylvania, California, New York
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New Hagen Ranch Road Library to be a regional draw
Special CorrespondentThe new Hagen Ranch Road Branch Library will be the largest in the county system when it opens with great fanfare this weekend. A ribbon cutting at 10 a.m. Friday will kick off three days of activities to introduce readers west of Delray Beach to their...Tags: Beach Vacations, Clubs and Associations, Palm Beach (Palm Beach, Florida), Delray Beach, Boca Raton
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