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...recent citing of Charon, believed to be a moon of Pluto, challenges theories about the origins and characteristics of that planet, Harvard astronomers said yesterday...
...touches of pathos in the studiously detached account of De Freitas' career as a contemporary Emperor Jones. The problems of fitting the ritual masks of modernism over Africa's colonial scars are treated with impatient sympathy. But in Argentina, Naipaul seems to walk on a decaying planet where a succession of carnivores feed on a gullible mass and a demoralized middle class. It is a place where the grotesque is made to seem normal. In 1972 the inflation rate is 60% a year and rising; urban guerrillas kidnap and rob at will; the Ford Falcons of the secret...
PITTSBURGH PIRATES--Can Tim Foli ever hit .291 again? Last year something special happened to the Pirates. They took off, soared to uncharted heights and landed on a planet of paradise. Come home, boys--to third...
...Orwell said," Viorst quotes Ginsberg, "a functioning police state doesn't need police to enforce. They get people to internalize. In 1984, the people don't realize there's a war at the other end of the planet. Then, suddenly, they wake up to the fact that there has been some vast conditioning. Brainwashing may be too strong a word, but it's accurate. It was a conditioning so that the public was able to amnesiaize vast areas of its own consciousness...
Premise No. 2: An overly ambitious assistant professor of psychology (Alan Arkin) is afflicted with intellectual pretentiousness and a messianic complex. He is also an orphan, which means that it might be possible to convince him and everyone else that he was produced "like a toaster" on some other planet and brought to earth in a spaceship. The mad scientists put the hero in a water tank for days to take him back beyond the womb. They induce false but highly persuasive memories of his origins and, incidentally, provide Arkin with a tour de force mime sequence in which...