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...would end with a nuclear bang rather than a whimper. Had the U.S.S.R. not been lucky enough to draw Mikhail Gorbachev instead of, say, Yuri Andropov as its last leader, the odds are high the outcome would have been very bad. All any U.S. President could do with that nightmarish regime was restrain it from further expansion while praying that when it finally did collapse, it would somehow manage to do so peacefully--which, finally, was what happened, through pure luck. Reagan's policies had nothing whatsoever to do with it. BRUCE MOOMAW Cameron Park, Calif...
...films of David Cronenberg, such as "The Fly" and "Rabid," with their themes of bodily corruption, will see his influence on Ito's work. His brilliant drawings only become more outrageous as the story goes on, searing your brain with fantastically detailed moments of gut-puking carnage and nightmarish surreality. At one point Tadashi encounters a circus taken over by the germ that keeps going about its business - a seeping, rotting parody of its once jubilant self. One complaint: although the entire book is in English, including the sound effects, it has been printed right to left; a pointless gimmick...
...Jersey for a weekend-long economics conference and—at the behest of her mentor, Princeton Afro-American Studies Department chair Earl Stokes—agrees to linger in town to guest-lecture in his undergraduate class Monday morning. Nikki’s long weekend quickly turns nightmarish after Stokes dies in a mysterious blaze. As she hunts for Stokes’ murderer, Nikki finds that blacks and whites in Princeton are related by blood ties formed through a slew of adulterous trysts...
Their travels and thoughts took them far, far away from Albany, N.Y., site of their nightmarish 5-4 loss to Maine in the NCAA East Regional...
...this nightmarish scenario suggests, we are relieved that the Supreme Court in fact ruled in favor of Washington state last Thursday, denying that the state should have to fund theology majors at religious colleges. The Court has avoided the slippery slope for now. Thankfully, the seven justices in the majority maintained religious choice for all students...