washingtonpost.com - Magazine ReaderMagazine ReaderWalt Whitman, Taking Poetic License With His Image- April 12, 2005 O Walt Whitman! Bard of America! Poet of Democracy! Singer of the body electric! Barbaric yawper!http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45453-2005Apr11.html?nav=rss_style/columns/... Jane, Dressed in a Plain Brown Wrapper- April 12, 2005 Jane is raunchy. Jane is randy. Jane is snide and sarcastic and self-centered. Jane is a little nutty and a little slutty. Jane is cheesy and sleazy and trashy. And I mean that in the best possible way.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35568-2004Nov8.html?nav=rss_style/columns/m... Stinky the Robot, Four Kids And a Brief Whiff of Success- April 12, 2005 Stinky is one ugly robot, a raggedy contraption constructed of crudely painted, cheap plastic pipes pasted together with gobs of the foul-smelling glue that gave the monstrosity its name.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8429-2005Mar28.html?nav=rss_style/columns/m... Yakety Facts: The Word on Clinton in Vanity Fair- April 12, 2005 If you're planning a dinner party, take this bit of sage advice: Don't invite Bill Clinton.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34846-2004May17.html?nav=rss_style/columns/... Without a Doubt, This Believer Is Heaven-Sent- April 12, 2005 The Believer sounds like the name of a religious magazine but it isn't. The Believer is a literary magazine. Or maybe not. Can you be a literary magazine if you run an article about a convention of people who collect '70s-era Mego action figure dolls and you tout the story with the cover line "Adorable Flaws, Goofy Charm, and Soft, Rubbery Heads"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35471-2005Mar14.html?nav=rss_style/columns/... It's a Ball: Sports Illustrated's 50th Birthday Issue- April 12, 2005 As ceilings go, the one in the Sistine Chapel is right up there at the top, which is where a good ceiling should be.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55570-2004Sep27.html?nav=rss_style/columns/... Index, America's Funniest, Back of Atlantic Monthly- April 12, 2005 Alley, Kirstie, circumference of, 109 Bennett, Tony, digestive integrity of, 162http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61734-2005Feb28.html?nav=rss_style/columns/... Patti Wood and the Posture Phenomenon- April 12, 2005 Patti Wood is a sage. She's a savant, a scholar, a seer. Patti Wood is the perfect expert for our age. She is God's gift -- or maybe academia's gift -- to America's cheesy magazine industry.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42111-2004Jun14.html?nav=rss_style/columns/... The Collar Of Money in New York Dog- April 12, 2005 At first, I figured New York Dog was an over-the-top parody of dog magazines, perhaps published by the folks who put out the Onion.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24726-2005Feb14.html?nav=rss_style/columns/... A Gluten for Punishment- April 12, 2005 Organic! All-Natural! Fat-free! Cholesterol-free! Gluten-free! Bromate-free! These days, ads are packed with scads of scientific-sounding claims. But are they true Or are they 100 percent fact-freehttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64394-2004May3.html?nav=rss_style/columns/m... |