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...symphony of blacks and blazing reds. The ring-wraiths who pursue Frodo are inky phantoms on horseback and lurching deformities on foot. The action flows across backdrops that are both eye-boggling and wildly diverse. Bakshi has suggested the range and variety of Middle-earth geography by displaying a scrapbook filled with conflicting styles. Those who enjoy humming the scenery can forget the plot and go on a spree of influence hunting. That shot of the hobbits' Shire looks like a fair imitation of Andrew Wyeth; this sunset comes by way of J.M.W. Turner...
...Cortázar wrote, he clipped news paper articles about political torture and other governmental outrages. He has his characters read these from day to day and paste them into a scrapbook for little Manuel, the baby son of two cell mem bers. The dispatches are photocopied in the novel so that the fictional Manuel, and all of the real Manuels who may be involved in the struggle some day, will know what their elders were fighting against. But there is no real attempt to examine the causes of right-wing terror or the pendulum swing left to counterterror...
...else, certainly from Joe Restic and the Harvard coaching staff--but you will get no arguments on the first two points. And you will get no arguments if you say it's a goddamned shame Wayne Moore broke his ankle last week, and that his place in the Harvard scrapbook will be limited to three brief, glorious moments last fall and this...
...member of the family. Skora's wife Sharon was indifferent to her husband's creation at first, but now the couple cannot help being a bit anthropomorphic about what is their only child. They start the day by saying good morning to him. They keep a scrapbook of his press clippings. They worry about his delicate circuits the way parents worry about a nagging winter cough...
...continuing. Since women and men are not yet sure how to balance careers and children, they have done the obvious, which is, for the meantime, to stop having children. There have been enough articles written on the question of children, and modern day women to fill any feminist's scrapbook. But even if very few seem to have found the solution, at least people are trying, and with any luck, more will find the answers to a perplexing situation...