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It’s Unreal
In this summer’s hit movie, Independence Day, the president oversees attacks against the aliens by watching fancy color monitors with live-action images of airplanes and spaceships. A Marine pilot brings down a trailing alien fighter by deliberately opening and releasing his F18’s tail parachute in flight so that it flops on the alien’s windshield and […]
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Missed Moorings: American Novelists Lose Touch
Not long ago the winners of the American Book Awards for 1985 were announced: Don DeLillo’s White Noise in fiction and Anthony Lukas’s Common Ground in nonfiction. Thankfully for the purveyors of the awards, which have been controversial lately, it was a quiet year. Nobody much complained. Both books were by well-known, veteran authors, both were well received, neither wore […]
