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...their way to tacking together television's new season, the networks have at least cleared up one mystery. Raiders of the Lost Ark, fans will recall, ended inside a huge warehouse stacked floor to ceiling with wooden cartons marked "Top Secret." The networks have sneaked onto those premises, crowbarred off the lids and let the world see what was in the packing boxes: knockoffs...
GOVERNOR SENATOR ALA. George C. Wallace(D) No Race ALASKA * No Race ARIZ. Bruce Babbin (D) Dennis DeConcini (D) ARK. Bill Clinton (D) No Race CALIF. George Deukmoflan (R) Pete Wilson (R) COLO. Richard D. Lamm (D) No Race CONN. William A. O'Neill (D) Lowell P. Weicker Jr. (R) DEL. No Race William V. Roth Jr. (R) FLA. Bob Graham (D) Lawton Chiles (D) GA. Joe Frank Harris (D) No Race HAWAII George Ariyoshi (D) Spark M. Marsunaga (D) IDAHO * No Race ILL. Adlai E. Stevenson III (D) No Race IND. No Race Richard G. Lugar (R) IOWA Terry...
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...kind cannot bear very much reality," T.S. Eliot observed. Evidently, neither can many prominent novelists. An increasing number are now in flight from the everyday world they used to chronicle. In his latest novel, God's Grace, Bernard Malamud conceived of a latter-day Noah, adrift on an ark. Doris Lessing has taken an apparently irreversible leap into outer space with her multivolume chronicle of "galactic empires." Now Joyce Carol Oates has again wandered off into the never-never land of the neo-gothic romance. In Oates' case, the purpose of the excursion is parody. A Bloodsmoor Romance...
...plot is equally enigmatic. When the ark is beached on a tropical island, Cohn and Buz encounter other creatures: a gorilla, eight baboons and eight chimps! which are quickly given such names as Esau and Saul of Tarsus. On every day save the Sabbath, Cohn lectures the apes on the obligations of freedom, the American Constitution, the Big Bang, the nature of evil and other elevated subjects. On Passover he conducts a Seder for the sapient monkeys, except for the intractable gorilla, who will attend only to the Kaddish, the Jewish prayer for the dead...