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DIED. MARCO FERRERI, 68, satirical Italian director who explored the human appetite in all its savage absurdity; of a heart attack; in Paris. Morality runs amuck in Ferreri's erotic works. In The Conjugal Bed (1963), a groom is consumed by his wife's lust; in The Grande Bouffe (1973), four middle-aged men gorge themselves to death...
...mania has now produced a spate of books--catnip for the nostalgia connoisseur and the mogul hoping to extend his franchise line and move the vintage-cartoon cassettes off the video-store shelves. Warner Books has published Chuck Reducks, the second (after Chuck Amuck) memoir of Warner Bros.' cartoon glory years by its major double-domo, Chuck Jones. Turner Publishing, literary outlet for the owner of mgm cartoons, honors animation's wildest spirit with John Canemaker's handsome Tex Avery: The MGM Years, 1942-55. It is essentially a reprint of Pierre Lambert's original, one of four French books...
Another theme deals with defining humanity in a world where capitalism has gone amuck and the distinction between humans and machines is blurred...
...more than a decade, and the number of cases has risen dramatically over the past five years. Have the Dutch found a sensible and humane way of dealing with the unbearable pain and suffering that often comes at the end of life? Or is this a policy run amuck...
...Asia, battered Japan is back from the brink of disaster. After little growth in 1995, it last year recorded 3% growth, the fastest among the big industrial economies. Meanwhile, China, its expansion having run amuck two years ago, has managed to pull off a "soft landing" by cutting back inflation without a recession...