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...Random House; 865 pages...
...lawsuit rundown of the murders, with a little sex and some ethnic name-calling thrown in, presumably to distinguish the book's heroic police inspector from the strait-laced Sgt. Friday Readers looking for a thoughtful analysis of the tortured reasoning--or lack thereof--that could lead to six random murders will be disappointed by the Exorcist-like ranting about demons and howling dogs; others, who might have hoped for a taut study of politicking and pressures within the police department will have to do with occasional references to blood rivalries between the Irish and Italians on the force...
SUPERPEN by Edward Sorel Random House...
Marshack, a former science writer who has devoted 15 years to paleolithic studies, has suggested even bolder ideas. In his writings, notably The Roots of Civilization, he says that what looks like random scribbling on cave walls and even on some artifacts may actually represent many different symbol systems. These could have been used to record the passage of the seasons and astronomical observations and to indicate periods of rituals and ceremonies. If these controversial yet hardly dismissable ideas are correct, Cro-Magnon man may well have been experimenting with the precursors of writing, arithmetic, calendar making and other "civilized...
...trouble is that the slices are cut thinner than a bargain LP. They are really just slivers or, more properly, shaving of the sort that pile up beneath an ineptly managed saw. Ill-assorted, illarranged, they seem simply to have been swept up and deposited at random beween the songs in a film that cannot really be said to have been written or directed at anything like a professional evel...