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Near the western edge of the Everglades, there's a quiet spot where Gene Duncan goes to unwind. It sits at the junction of two canals, where a stand of willows and pond-apple trees provides a bit of shade. When Duncan, a water- quality expert working for the local Indian tribe, cuts the engine of his airboat, he can hear bullfrogs croak from the water lilies and the tails of - Florida garfish slap the water with a noise like popcorn popping. A pair of white ibis watch warily as alligators -- half a dozen of them -- drift toward the boat...
Meanwhile, Dr. Prentice frantically struggles to unwind this mess. The plot thickens when Nicholas Beckett (Mark Mindich), the matter-of-fact porter from the Chamber Hotel, arrives and returns Mrs. Prentice's "newly cleaned" garments--the forgotten extras from a night of her own promiscuity. Mrs. Prentice is so over-sexed that her husband predicts, "she'll go to the grave in a Y-shaped coffin...
True, a number of these tales unwind in the future, although science has little to do with most of them. The title story portrays Beirut some 30 years hence, still the scene of senseless, sectarian slaughter. A weary soldier conceives a plan for peace that actually begins to work, until it is sabotaged by the United Nations forces assigned to referee the carnage. The reason why is the extremely incisive point of the whole exercise. In The Largest Theme Park in the World, Ballard looks ahead past the planned 1992 economic unification of Europe to 1995, when many...
...imaginations busy by offering earthbound youngsters an opportunity to explore everything from the dynamics of flight to the clothes people wear. A Rocky Mountain climb on a special surface and a jump into Colorado's famed powder snow (actually 60,000 white balls) have also let the sports-minded unwind...
...included the cast of the play Survival, musician Hugh Masakela and, from Johannesburg, novelist Nadine Gordimer. "We want to erase the artificial line between intellectual and creative expression," says host John Hockenberry. "We want the show to be a place where the left brain and the right brain can unwind together." That's a tall order. Can the live wires at NPR deliver? Stay tuned...