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BUCK ROGERS belongs to the past Science fiction the United States has finally struggled to a state of respectability, shedding the dime-store pulp magazine image it acquired in the 20s and '30s. Gone are the lurid magazine covers of space ships, ray guns and over-endowed Galactic princesses; the romantic, swashbuckling days of Depression science fiction have passed, replaced by serious literary efforts--carefully written and structured novels and short stories...
...about foreign opinion. He has been lucky in his posthumous biographers in the West. The first, English Journalist Henry Scott-Stokes, last year published a sensitive and sympathetic analysis (The Life and Death of Yukio Mishima) that appreciated Mishima's accomplishments while explaining them in terms of his lurid narcissism...
...This lurid encomium to cocaine was not penned by an immature drug addict. It was written 90 years ago by Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis, to his fiancee Martha Bernays. It is no secret that Freud frequently got his kicks from cocaine. But as is clear from his newly compiled Cocaine Papers, his interest in the drug was scientific, not sensual. Freud was searching for a miracle drug that would benefit his patients and make his reputation. He thought he had found it in cocaine...
Attorney Vincent Bugliosi was chief prosecutor at the 9½-month Tate-LaBianca trial-the longest murder trial in California history. With help from Author Curt Gentry (The Last Days of the Late Great State of California), he has produced a valuable book on a lurid subject. Through solid documentation, Bugliosi and Gentry have constructed a record of savagery and official bungling-a textbook on what can go wrong between the discovery of a crime and its prosecution...
...This lurid theory postulates the existence...