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Though weakening, the primal links between humans and wild animals are not yet entirely dissolved. In The Great Divorce (Doubleday; 340 pages; $22.50), novelist Valerie Martin weaves together three narratives to explore those connections. Ellen, the veterinarian for a New Orleans zoo, does not like the compromises she has to make. But, she understands, "that's the deal." She feels the hopelessness of preserving animals in "a netherworld of human scrutiny and intervention" by maintaining an ark for captive species that will never sleep freely under a night sky. In her marriage, she accepts her husband's infidelities. Finally...
...decades ago, Harvard students didn't streak through the Yard in the midst of the Primal Scream in order to relieve exam stress...
...downer, I figured. Not so. In a series of astonishing cuts (of two different kinds), Hitchcock gets away with, well, murder. He shows us the approach of Mother through the shower curtain, which would theoretically dull the effect of the attack that follows, without lessening the primal terror we feel when she does attack one bit. The shower runs throughout the scene (and well into the following one), draining the blood in a forshadowing of Norman's own obsessive cleaning...
...game is derived from two basic, primal instincts of mankind: Monopoly and drinking Pepsi. We call it "Drinkopoly...
...really began when I heard the'primal scream' before exams," said Marc J.Kuchner '94, a coalition member. "I thought tomyself, here we are screaming like we're about tobe lowered into hell--and then I realized that inBosnia screams like this are real...