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Spielberg could not be reached yesterday, but an associate said his next project will probably be a sequel to "Raiders of the Lost Ark...
...come off the NASA assembly line. Every character has his own quirky resonance; each scene is energized by grace notes that reward all those subsequent viewings. But Spielberg had proved his directorial skill before ? with Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Raiders of the Lost Ark ?while tapping the moviegoer's sense of fear and excitement. This time, though, he touched something more than a nerve ending. With E.T. he proved that the everyday could be unique, and that the science fiction of movie technology could show us all the way home. Inside this runty extraterrestrial...
...success quickly lured other competitors. A year ago, Mattel was still the major one, but at least 20 companies have products on store shelves this Christmas. In order to hold on to its market share, Atari spent heavily to promote its new E.T. and Raiders of the Lost Ark games. But sales failed to reach expected levels...
...easy trying to establish your identity when you are the wife of protean Writer Norman Mailer, 49, especially when you're an artist in your own right. A former art instructor from Russellville, Ark., Norris Church Mailer, 33, has hardly been hurt by familial connections, but her oils are better than many a skeptic would expect. Last week the artist's work went on display in a one-woman show in Manhattan's SoHo district. For her depiction of down-home folks sitting on front stoops or ambling along Main Street, Church uses family, friends and even...
Flood II also seeps through Squid & Spider (Prentice-Hall; $10.95). Guy Billout imagines the passenger list for a new ark: 800,000 insects; 8,580 birds; 6,000 reptiles. On the way, he renders the fauna with his dazzling high-tech style. The text brims with trivia guaranteed to hypnotize the young: crocodiles swallow stones to aid digestion; giraffes give birth standing up; the sperm whale can hold its breath for an hour. No illustration is more comically apropos than the one of St. Nicholas pulled by a sole reindeer. As wolves pursue his sleigh, Santa diverts them by tossing...