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...glacial period, and in southern Africa the climate was cooler than it is today. Giraffes, hyenas and baboons abounded, along with now extinct giant horses and hartebeests and buffalo with 13-ft. horn spans. Neanderthal man had not yet emerged, but intelligent beings already roamed the savanna, upright creatures known today as archaic Homo sapiens, who could fashion crude axes, picks and cleavers out of stone. On a clear night 170,000 years ago, one of these ancestors of man may have looked up at a milky band of stars stretching across the sky, his eyes pausing briefly...
...more bad prose than any other major writer I can think of." The only disputable word is major. The quotes from the novels -- not to say the novels themselves -- suggest the literary equivalent of a dinosaur: vast in structure, unoccupied by thought and, after all the ponderous effort, wholly extinct...
...lecture circuit. The reason: in collaboration with the Nature Conservancy International, he is attempting to raise $11.8 million for an unprecedented ecological experiment. Janzen plans to use the money to buy 158 sq. mi. of Costa Rican terrain surrounding Santa Rosa and re-create a virtually extinct ecosystem known as tropical dry forest. He has already named the proposed refuge Guanacaste National Park...
...SECOND act opens with the cast in surfer garb dancing in the aisles to "Under The Boardwalk" a la Wuthering Heights. But why not? Happy days are here again, the Ice Age has thawed, the dinosaur is extinct, the tomato is edible and the human race celebrates at a convention of mammals in Atlantic City...
...losing battle with television for the hearts and imaginations of youngsters. Some comic characters, such as Wonder Woman, Batman and Robin, crossed over to the tube, at least for a time, but when the industry hit bottom in the early '70s, it seemed that comic books might become an extinct form...