Word: rovers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...jungle also occupies William Steig, who, at 80, has found the source of eternal juvenilia. The proof is in his 21st children's book, The Zabajaba Jungle (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $13.95). The author-illustrator enters the imagination of Leonard, a small rover who cuts his way through underbrush populated with beaky toucans and blue-bottomed mandrills. After a series of hilarious escapades, the boy encounters the most unexpected creatures of all: his mother and father. They look relieved to see him, and why not? What are young explorers for except to rescue grownups...
Sagdeyev has even higher expectations for the Mars Sample Return mission, now being planned for the late 1990s. The idea is for the spacecraft to make a soft landing on the planet and send a rover to gather soil samples on a yearlong trek over the surface. Then about 2 lbs. of material would be returned to earth for detailed analysis. In Sagdeyev's plan, the U.S. would supply the rover, plus advanced electronics to guide it from an orbiting mother ship...
...gourmet groceries, their Burberry-clothed arms reaching for the arugula or a Le Menu frozen flounder dinner. In the parking lot, they slide into their BMWs and lift cellular phones to their ears before zooming off to their architect- designed houses in the exurbs. After warmly greeting Rover (often an akita or golden retriever), they check to be sure the pooch service has delivered his nutritionally correct dog food. Then they consult the phone-answering machine, pop dinner into the microwave and finally sink into their Italian leather sofa to watch a videocassette of, say, last week...
...Catholic priest. Into a notebook that he always carried, he had inscribed the text of the Latin Mass, copied from a missal that he had borrowed somewhere in his travels. Davis sometimes donned a long white alb and, all by himself outside the boma, performed services beside his Land Rover, chanting the Latin in a rich bass...
...capital is suddenly stormed by the Khmer Rouge, and everything is abruptly swallowed up in the shadow world. As the country descends into anarchy, the 17-year-old narrator becomes a fugitive. Packing up his treasured copies of Animal Farm and Rebecca, he is driven in the family Land Rover through a boulevard of corpses, out into the wasted fields. Suddenly, the children who loved to listen to ghost stories are living them...