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Science fantasy is an act of subversion disguised as a fairy tale. In primal imagery and orotund cadences it sets the young imagination on a children's crusade against malevolent power. It describes a vicarious rite of passage through bloodshed and anarchy to heroic manhood; it upends the prevailing social order to establish a new moral equilibrium. For the generation of budding revolutionaries in the 1960s, Frank Herbert's Dune was a magical mystery trilogy that, along with The Lord of the Rings and the Gormenghast books, galvanized the spirit like a Disney Das Kapital. In Dune, rival...
...mile against one team alone. He has passed for 10,303 yds. in all and has run that up to 11,054, both major-college records. But the cold figures are not what has warmed New Englanders, who as a rule show no more passion than penchant for this primal sport of Texas and Ohio. Boston College was 0-11 as recently as 1978, and while the Eagles are currently 8-2 and bound for the Cotton Bowl, no one expects that to be their standard fare from now on. Locally, the Flutie phenomenon has been regarded...
Japan's Sankai Juku revels in primal movement...
Verbalized ideas only encumber these primal parables. The singular glory of Sankai Juku is that it achieves almost pure metaphor. It is not like anything else...
...Thiefs of Hearts, writer and director Douglas Day Stewart presents an unnerving and alluring possibility for a thriller, the simultaneous unveiling of deep secrets and the realization of fantasy. Scotty, Ray and Mickey personify Freud's conception of the mind. Scotty is the Id; one's primal nature, impulsive and sensual. Ray represents the superego, law-abiding, secure and conventional. Mickey's the ego in the middle, trying to achieve a balance between the two. "Thief of Hearts" fails to achieve a thoroughly disturbing effect because Mickey suffers from a healthy psyche. She is tempted, she even yields slightly...