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...Juan's spending time in the tenants' apartments. It is tacked on and never explored except in a throwaway chapter which concludes the novel. This is the chief example of Arenas's grand ambition to pack his brief work with as many profound themes as possible, while forgetting the craft involved in writing a piece of fiction...
With these rockets, Tippler suggests, it would take a craft only 10 million years to cover that whole galaxy. He believes that a civilization with millions of year additional progress could get here even faster than that. And, he adds, he finds it "hard to imagine that they'd come here and not set up a permanent base... I'd expect their presence to be very obvious if in they were here...
...first is a study of UFO abductions, a relatively common phenomenon that Eberhart says "may or May not be related to UFOs." In the usual scenario, people are abducted by "little grey men," brought onto an alien craft, examined, and then allowed...
Construction begins on the main complex next spring, and Meier, whose architecture depends on precision detailing, will have to be especially vigilant about the quality of the Southern California craft: Taco Bell stuccowork won't do. But considering the budget and Meier's habitual perfectionism, it looks as if the Getty Center, when finished in 1996, will have justified all the fuss...
...think of this: as the child performer was to the adult actress, so the tyro director may be to the mature auteur. Little Man Tate, for all its acuity of craft and gallantry toward its characters, could be simply the first step: the Coppertone commercial of filmmaker Foster. If this is the larva, imagine the butterflies to come...