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THE LAST THING moviegoers heard from Southeast Asia was Apocalypse Now, in which Robert Duvall glored in early morning napalm raids and Marlon Brando muttered T.S. Eliot as the flames of the Vietnam War engulfed him. In that ill-fated reworking of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Francis Ford...
Martin and O'Brien's nicknames exemplify the book's trite symbolism. At the book's start "A.M." is the pure, Catholic woman, P.M. the lecherous man. A.M., like day, represents good and opens Chicago politics to the light of public scrutiny, while P.M. is a reporter on the take...
Since then, however, projections have become less rosy, as economic setbacks hit Japan. Last year only 2.4 million people used the ferries. The Japanese National Railways, already $78 billion in the red, balked at adding a bullet line that stood to lose still more. Meanwhile, 33 tunnel workers have died...
Getting into the future once proved just as difficult. The science-fiction field, formerly a gentlemen's club run by the likes of Isaac Asimov, Frank Herbert and Arthur C. Clarke, now has a woman at the top of the charts. The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula Le...
His questions are not answered till the last scene, but Benton is evidently more concerned with how Rice sees this mysterious new woman in his life than with the murder itself. Rice becomes obsessed with unraveling the secret of Brooke's personality, and thus the mystery of her lover's...