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...carries her into the bathroom to more incredulous laughter from the audience. What follows is a direct steal from the first scene of Last Tango, its perhaps reverent plagiarism ruined as an erotic image by the fact that Emmanuelle is sitting on the sink in what must be pure pain...
...will emerge, in part because it may well be too late to arouse sufficient interest. The mysteries are already beginning to take on the same character for many people as questions like "What ever happened to Amelia Earhart?". In addition, the integration of serious research and solid evidence with pure fantasy has weakened the appeal of many legitimate investigators. But it may be possible to compel Congress to reopen the cases, just by the weight of evidence already uncovered. One Congressman, Texas Democrat Henry Gonzales, has already called for such a step. This should be the primary objective...
Will success spoil science fiction? Two of the writers in Science Fiction, Today and Tomorrow discuss what could happen to science Fiction in the future. James Gunn, in his well-documented essay, traces the development of modern science fiction and its recent public acceptance. Gunn sees a danger for pure science fiction as mainstream writers like Anthony Burgess. Herman work and Kurt Vonnegut Jr. turn to the themes and concepts" of science fiction. To Gunn, such writers represent a literary culture that is hostile to science fiction with its rational, pragmatic view of the universe. The New Wave of science...
...Pure Chandler. Take, for example, Spenser's reply to a smug and windy college president who wants to emphasize the "delicacy" of his predicament: "Look, I went to college once, I don't wear my hat indoors. And if a clue comes along and bites me on the ankle I grab it. I am not however an Oxford don. I am a private detective. Is there something you'd like me to detect or are you just polishing up your elocution for next year's commencement?" Pure Chandler. So is the president's riposte...
...objects called ts'ung, hollow cylinders encased in square tubes, remain recondite enigmas, even to scholars. Pi disks are often mentioned as symbols of Heaven and as proper offerings to the mountains and the rivers. Staring at these primeval shapes and the infinitely various shades and mixtures of colors--pure glossy black tinged with red and gold, pinks mottled by swirling streams of yellow, bolts of orange running through beige and brown--it is not difficult to see them as symbols of a world without form filled only with a fertile atmosphere of water and air and the incipient shapes...