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...hero to find the skeleton of an old superstar. Even the advertising campaign for "E. T." hints coyly at a Significant Parallel for sharp-eyed moviegoers to discern: that now-famous elongated finger stretching down from the heavens to point at a human finger reaching up from the earth. Remind you of any famous creation scenes on chapel ceilings? One wonders: since E. T. 's last-minute Easter-like recovery conveniently leaves the door open for a sequel, can we expect to see the little alien in his next adventure merrily waddling along the surface of some suburban swimming pool...
...longer terrifies, or even disgusts, the moviegoers for whom it is made. They appraise the carnage as dispassionately as coroners, occasionally nodding in approval and murmuring, "Hmm, haven't seen that before." The violence in this vigilante farce is too preposterous to make anyone wince, or to remind teen-agers of the real high schools they will be entering this week. Life is different outside the cartoon corridors of Contact High. And nobody but a connoisseur of trash ever got an education from a bad movie...
Someone should remind Ms. Matthews that in 1915 it was the Americans who went to Haiti. They were uninvited and unwanted, yet they stayed for 19 years. When they left, Haiti was a political shambles, the only power remaining being the police. Since then, this force under many guises has ruled the country ruthlessly...
...still in the formative stage, but King is its popular master. Different Seasons offers a dazzling display of how writing can appeal to people who do not ordinarily like to read. King uses language the same way the baseball fan seated behind the home-team dugout uses placards: to remind those present of what they have already seen. In Apt Pupil, for example, a 13-year-old boy tracks down a Nazi war criminal hiding out in his own Southern California suburb. When he confronts the fugitive, the youth is disappointed by the old man's accent: "It didn...
...when he goes to Camp David, Reagan finds a kind of contentment. "At Camp David," he says, "suddenly you're in a house that's house size." His trips beyond Washington ("a company town") remind him that it is "not quite as real there. You get out and you rediscover America." Reagan's daily newspaper reading is the editorials and the comics. He gets the news in a digest prepared by his staff. His favorite place remains his small ranch near Santa Barbara. He sounds almost biblical when he talks about it. "I look to the hills...