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...Rabelais and Swift. Woody Allen's The Kugelmass Episode stands as a classic. In it, a professor of humanities is propelled backward in time to the arms of Madame Bovary and the pages of a remedial Spanish textbook: "He was running for his life over a barren, rocky terrain as the word tener ('to have')-a large and hairy irregular verb-raced after him on its spindly legs...
...scheme revolved around the lotteries that the U.S. Bureau of Land Management holds every two months for oil and gas leases on about 1,200 tracts of Western land. This terrain is not the Government's most valuable property. Says Kathy Cooney, a Bureau of Land Management official in Wyoming, where most of the federal land is located: "About 98% of this land has been leased before, and no oil or gas was found...
...format, Heart Like a Wheel occupies the ragged terrain somewhere between old B movies and new TV movies. A blue-collar inspirational, it follows Muldowney from her teen-age nights on New Jersey back roads in the 1950s to her unprecedented third National Hot Rod Association world championship title last year. As with the Mercury space program, drag racing is largely an achievement of the designers and mechanics; the driver is a high-risk passenger who needs guts as much as skill to command a vehicle packing 2,500 h.p. and moving at 250 m.p.h. with a force...
...from destruction by fending off fireballs and dragons. Also expected to reach the arcades soon is Mylstar Electronics' M.A.C.H. 3, which stands for Military Air Command Hunter. The game puts the player in the cockpit of a fighter or bomber, and the laser disc projects film footage of terrain passing below, while the computer generates graphics representing enemy tanks, bridges and factories, which the pilot tries to destroy...
Moore, 62, is still trying to write as an American. Cold Heaven, his 13th novel, traverses a terrain of the spirit as far removed from Belfast as the beach house in Malibu, Calif., where he now resides. His main characters are a California couple vacationing on the French Riviera. After a boating accident, the husband, a self-centered young physician named Alex Davenport, is taken to a local hospital with head injuries; a team of French physicians pronounces him dead. His widow Marie suspects foul play. "Did they kill him . . . because of what I didn't do?" she muses...