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MEASURED on a human Richter scale, the Managua earthquake ranks as one of history's more modest seismic upheavals. In 1556 a quake collapsed thousands of cave dwellings in the cliffs of China's Shensi province, killing an estimated 830,000 peasants. In 1755 more than 50,000 died in a series of tremors that destroyed the city of Lisbon and inspired Voltaire to compose his moving Poem on the Lisbon Earthquake...
...plot turns on an invasion from the troubled north by strange blacks equipped with European weapons and a shabby Asian brand of revolution. Francois, a loyal Bushman friend and the pretty 13-year-old daughter of a neighboring rancher escape the massacre by taking refuge in a cave, which Francois has stocked with provisions. There is a strong note of never-never to the story, and while the time apparently is the late 1950s, the impression persists that the author really is saying farewell to his own childhood in Africa decades before...
...youngsters who rallied to McGovern's cause: "The blue-collar Hell's Angels are hoodlums; the upper-class Weatherman et al. are idealistic 'kids,' who are never idealistic enough to demonstrate on campus for mine safety after the live burials of their lesser peers in cave...
DANTE, WHOSE OWN GAZE was as resolute in considering his underworld, looms large in the background of Beckett's work. Plato's cave is recalled by the rumor continually circulating in the cylinder that there is a way out, either through a tunnel in the wall or through a trap door in the unreachable ceiling, and by the memory that once man had seen stars shine. But the Inferno in the closet thing to a predecessor ones wander endlessly in a circle, pausing only to climb one of the ladders leading to niches high in the walls, or to join...
Reservation strikes a blow for unliberated womanhood. Eva Marie is converted from "doing her own thing" to housewifedom and motherhood after some heavy petting with Hope, who manages to extricate them both from imprisonment in a cave. To do this, he shoots a signal out of a crack in the rocks with a homemade bow crafted from a handy branch and Eva Marie's leopard-skin brassiere. "I'm certainly glad I didn't burn my bra," coos Eva Marie. This sort of sniggering sitcom stuff belongs more prop erly on television, the celluloid burial ground...