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...also researched Five Patients, his documentary about the workings of a large medical center. In 1968 A Case of Need won the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award. For that book -a swiftly plotted story biased in favor of abortion-Crichton used the name Jeffry Hudson, who was a dwarf in the court of Charles...
...Population Growth and the American Future gave its answer: growth must slow down. "We will not like some of the solutions we will have to adopt," it said, "but unless we can resolve the question of population growth, it not only will aggravate our current problems but may eventually dwarf them...
...like a confused army of extras recruited from Central Casting. This is not really the fault of Director Minos Volanakis or the Chelsea Theater Center, which has staged Volanakis' translation at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Rather the flaw is in the script's grandiose pretensions, which dwarf interest in any individual...
When the penitent and his dwarf woman ask to be married in the town church they discover that the priest is none other than the abandoned son. The son wants to kill his father for abandoning him, but agrees to wait until he has finished digging the tunnel...
...toward the town and are met by a barrage of rifle fire. When the penitent arrives they are all dead. The townspeople shoot him also but he refuses to die and picks up a gun and again, as the avenger, kills all the townspeople. The only survivors are his dwarf wife, their newborn son, and his priest son. The penitent pours kerosene over himself and self-immolates, leaving the other three to ride off into the desert, and keep civilization going (or perhaps star in a sequel...