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...Pancake's world, solace in love or other human contact is race. Lovers fail to understand each other, and sex is often distant an cold. Families are frequently pathological or simply nonexistent. In "The Mark," the woman Reva, having lost both her parents at once, marries a dull, insensitive man whom she ends up despising. She tries to hold on to shattered family and love by continuing an incestuous relationship with her brother Clinton, dreaming of him coming to her "not in his boatman's clothes, but as a naked Indian hiding in the pawpaw tunnels. "The writing is lyrical...
...most famous barracks since Stalag 17-Hawkeye Pierce's Swamp-the cots, footlockers, stove, framed pictures and even the distillery are gone. The giggles and groans of Trapper John (Wayne Rogers) and B.J. Hunnicut (Mike Farrell) and Charles Emerson Winchester III (David Ogden Stiers) are now distant, poignant echoes...
Inside the hotel he got to a phone and gave the police a description. Two boys in ski jackets. Heading south. The time. The place. After he explained they had taken nothing identifiable, the distant precinct lost interest. Even if the two were picked up, there was nothing they could be held for. Besides, he was lucky to be unhurt, to have lost only $17. All this the bored voice subliminally conveyed...
Both existing majors fall within the Division of Applied Sciences, which would reorganize several of its course offerings in order to accommodate a distant third track of study, Paul C. Martin, dean of the Division, said...
...orbiting eye should also help establish the true size of our Milky Way Galaxy and discover distant galaxies and quasars. By identifying unknown sources of energy and adding data on the universe's mass, IRAS may help settle the grandest question of all: whether the universe will expand indefinitely or collapse upon itself under the remorseless tug of its own gravity...