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...Clive Barker...
...antiscience, warning of the dangers of ambition, so fiction of the supernatural often tends to be subtly antimagic. The underlying message in each case is the inherent peril in man's playing God. The two genres are cunningly fused in the 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...
...portions are too small. It's ridiculous that the main entree is limited and you can eat as much salad as you want," says Chad H. Barker...
Animal-rights groups have steadily gathered force. Last month Trans-Species Unlimited, an animal activist organization, staged its fourth annual Fur-Free Friday in 90 cities across the nation. In New York City some 3,000 protesters, led by perennial TV game-show host Bob Barker, marched down Fifth Avenue carrying signs and taunting fur-coat wearers with shouts of "Shame!" Says Barker, who resigned last year as host of the Miss Universe pageant because contestants wore fur: "We want people wearing fur to be embarrassed when they walk into a restaurant. Fur is obscene, fur is cruel...
...guess is Barker never thought about giving away tickets to The Game. And if he did, he certainly wouldn't capitalize the "T" and the "G." In the real world, nobody thinks about The Game, excepting Harvard affiliates interested in honest athletic competition and Yalies still bitter over their Harvard rejections...