Word: earthly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...plot could be torn from yesterday's headlines: SEA SHEPHERD FROM OUTER SPACE. Imagine that the environmental activists who recently sank two Icelandic whaling vessels were the rulers of a 23rd century planet, and that they had sent to earth a probe with signals that could be answered only by humpback whales -- a species that had been hunted to extinction by blubber- lusting 20th century man. If the whales don't talk back, the earth blows up. So the Star Trek crew must become time travelers. They must boomerang their stolen Klingon warship around the sun, land in San Francisco...
...deepest moments. Nearly 25 years ago, he wrote that "history has always seemed to me primarily an art, a branch of literature." Today his neatly combed hair mussed, his bow tie askew, as it were, he writes with a new passion, as a vigorous elder concerned that the earth survive for future generations. It is an irony that he would be the first to appreciate: when he sounds least like a liberal, he sounds most like a historian, and an artist...
...influencing his style; his work also seems informed by the bloated grotesqueries of Gahan Wilson (Playboy, The New Yorker). Nonetheless, Larson's vision is like no other cartoonist's. If a single theme animates his work, it is that man, for all his | achievements, is just one species on earth, and not always the wisest or strongest one. His prehistoric cave dwellers and chunky matrons with beehive hairdos and sequined glasses are vulnerable and foolish, while his cows and bears are wise and resourceful. "It's wonderful that we live in a world in which there are things that...
...sort of folks one expects to bump into at a bridge party, a church service, a Rotary Club meeting. They are not the kind of people likely to show up for, say, a seance. Yet, on Oct. 31, the night souls of the dead are said to roam the earth, that is just where a visitor found the chairman of Lawrence University's psychology department, the president of a local construction company, the CEO of a large paper company, the executive director of the county's Outagamie Museum, the city's director of planning and development and about...
...dear Adele"? Where else is it written that 22 of the 633 men aboard Lord Nelson's flagship at Trafalgar were Americans, that the Syrian general Nicator fainted at the sound of a flute, that the 1883 explosion of the Krakatoa volcano was the loudest sound ever heard on earth -- it was clearly noted 2,058 miles away in Ceylon -- that the Spanish Steps, Rome's great gathering place for tourists, are actually owned by France and leased to Italy for an annual fee of one lira (about .07 cent)? Where else can it be learned that Henry...