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...author might argue that literary attitudes have percolated through the cul ture. But if businessmen in fiction and film are often the bad guys, more often it is the underclasses who are represented as wanton, greedy criminals...
...engineering and archaeology, ad vances his thesis with layman's language and expert's knowledge. Citing archaeological discoveries (both his own and those of others), he offers evidence that toolmaking men resided in the Americas more than 38,000 years ago, points out similarities between the shamanistic cul ture of the Cro-Magnons and that of the American Indians and provides convincing arguments that the prehistoric migration could just as easily have gone from the Americas as come to them. Few of Goodman's colleagues will subscribe to his theory; many still find his evidence in complete...
...Dallas - inspired by Urban Cowboy - that features an electronic bucking bull (price per ride: $2 for less than a minute). The clothes are certainly durable, comfortable and generally affordable. For some, they come trailing clouds of glory and nostalgia as well. Says Barbara Cirkva, 32, a buyer for the Cul de Sac boutique at Manhattan's Bloomingdale's: "We all want to be cowboys and Indians. We were all cowboys and Indians as kids. It's one of the last great fantasies left...
...well knew, it was tuberculosis. And when she did die five years later at the age of 34, the writing she left behind was indeed a scrappy oeuvre: 88 stories, 26 of them unfinished, many others juvenilia, sketches, magazine-formula pieces, experimental cul-de-sacs. Fortunately, among them were also shards of genius. Her best stories-At the Bay, Je ne parle pas français, The Daughters of the Late Colonel, The Garden Party, perhaps half a dozen others-leaped beyond the traditional 19th century tale in a few quick, bright strokes. Although they were short on narrative...
...tenth novel Author Thomas Berger claims squatter's rights to the plot of the beleaguered household. Earl Keese, middle-aged and overweight, lives with his wife Enid smack at the end of a cul-de-sac somewhere in exurbia. Their plans for a normal Friday night have been made without reckoning on Harry and Ramona, a younger couple newly ensconced in the only other house on the block. Ramona appears first, while Enid is in the kitchen seeing to supper, and makes some lewd advances toward Earl...