Word: arkfuls
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...ancient ark, which, when tinkered with, empties out a cloud-burst of evil spirits with the power to incinerate anyone in their path...
Think about the role scientists play in these movies. In "Close Encounters of the Third-Kind," they are a sinister pack of bureaucrats who stifle the simple, pure-hearted spirits of the U. F. O. witnessers. Indiana Jones, the anthropologist hero of "Raiders of the Lost Ark," is spared the ark's deadly wrath only because he refuses to look at it, hardly the most scientifically curious of approaches. The various technicians who tromp through the haunted house in "Poltergiest" are useless, for all their sophisticated machinery, in the face of the specters who have set up shop there...
Cohn is no Noah. Indeed, readers would do well to give up any notion of decoding the ciphers and symbols that fall as thick and fast as the hailstones of God's wrath. What is one to make, for example, of Cohn's companion on his frail ark: a talking chimpanzee named Buz, after "one of the descendants of Nahor, the brother of Abraham the Patriarch." Granted that Cohn, a former rabbinical student, is given to excesses in biblical name giving, his choice of Buz is scarcely apposite; the chimp is a Christian convert who crosses himself when...
...ark faces rough sailing on the tax hike...
...policies tend to admire the President's personal style, and doubt that they will readily abandon him. "I don't blame Reaganomics or anything the President has done," says John Ed Tarkington, 36, who raises rice and soybeans on his 1,900-acre farm near Almyra. Ark. "We are at the mercy of the market." Indeed, many farmers still seem willing to give Reagan more time to turn the economy around with his policies...