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Australia's war against the dingo has sharply reduced sheep losses-and the population of the wild dog. But further gains may well be a Pyrrhic victory. A still incomplete, decade-long government study has already concluded that the dingo preys heavily on rabbits, wallabies and other grass-eating...
Unfortunately, the emotionless rite has a permanently damaging effect on Steve's (and Bullins's) attitude towards women. Women are seen as sexual objects and survival of the male ego becomes dependent on crushing the female's. "You sonna bitch," Velma, the lonely housewife Steve seduces and mistreats in The...
THE LEGEND OF HELL HOUSE owes more than a passing debt to Shirley Jackson's fine novel The Haunting of Hill House, and to the clammy film Robert Wise adapted from it in 1963. Both the plot and shocks here are similar, if not so forceful: a small, antagonistic...
As the extended title indicates, Novelist Mullhouse lived a mere eleven years, and his output, aside from a few little stories, was a "novel" called Cartoons, inspired by innumerable comic books and animated movie features. Though mildly precocious, Edwin is in fact a rather ordinary little fellow. The one to...
Presumably she should know better. A hapless and bloody rehash of Bonnie and Clyde, Bloody Mama features Shelley as the head of a small criminal band of psychopathic wastrels, four of whom are, incidentally, her sons. There are heavy-breathing suggestions that the family that preys together plays together. Mama...