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...rich and absorbing new novel by Clive Barker, a horror writer (The Books of Blood, Weaveworld) and filmmaker (Hellraiser, Nightbreed) who is branching into fantasy. While The Great and Secret Show is populated by a DeMille-size cast of pubescent schoolgirls, suburban worthies, seedy entertainers and even a winsome apeman, its central antagonists are a mad genius straight from science fiction and a deranged postal clerk who dreams of magical powers...
...find.) White, in any case, has every reason to be cautious. In 1979 he and the leader of the Lucy expedition, Anthropologist Donald Johanson, touched off a major anthropological controversy by lumping Lucy and other East African fossils into a single new species, which they called Australopithecus afarensis (apeman from Afar). These Lucy-type creatures, they said, were common ancestors of two distinct hominid lines-the australopithecines, which presumably died out, and the strain that 'led eventually to Homo sapiens...
Tarzan could do a lot of things -swing from vines, talk to jungle beasts and set Jane aquiver-but the one thing he could not do was execute the famous apeman yell. Speaking to a group of college students in Ontario, Onetime Swimming Champion Buster Crabbe admitted that his Tarzan cries in the movies had all been dubbed. So had those of another noted Tarzan, Johnny Weissmuller. "The studio had a recording of three voices," Crabbe explained, "one a soprano, one a baritone and the third a hog caller, who all yelled together...
...have built to shield us from pain and uncertainty, to protect, preserve--yea enshrine--our comfort, has really done little more than steadily isolate us from the natural order that, as organic beings, we were once so much a part of. We are trying to recover what our apeman forbears had, even though it was interwoven with terror and ignorance, a feeling of belonging, a sense of unity with...
Anthropologists unearthed him in 1856, and described him as a beetle-browed, bent-kneed apeman, though his cranium (at 1,600 cc.) was more capacious than that of a contemporary brain (averaging 1,450 cc.). Writers as disparate as Irving Crump (Og) and William Golding (The Inheritors) patronized him as a subhuman slob. Yet Homo Neanderthalensis, so named for the Central European valley in which his bones were discovered, survived for 2,000 generations and seems to have had the same sensitivities as his descendants. Writing in the monthly report of the French Prehistoric Society, Archaeologist Arlette Leroi-Gourhan described...