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There is a method to Cronenberg's shock tactics. Whereas Howard the Duck is an effects festival attached to a smirk, The Fly is smart and serious about its characters. Seth and Veronica could be any two people falling in love, eager for adventure but anxious about the changes and dark revelations that come with learning how little they know about their lovers. That nice guy lying next to you in bed, breathing in your rhythm, smiling in his sleep -- what demons sleep within him? And why does his snore sound like a gentle bzzzzz...
Author Eric Newby, who has written travel books himself and served as travel editor of the Observer in London, divides his anthology into broad geographical sections (Africa, Europe, North America, etc.) and then offers excerpts about each area in chronological order. This method of organization creates travelogues in time as well as space. A Greek navigator who landed on the British Isles around 310 B.C. formed a favorable impression of the residents: "They are simple in their habits, and far removed from the cunning and knavishness of modern man." By the early 18th century, a Swiss visitor to England noted...
...shore of the sea, quite naked, and was dancing and leaping, and singing, and whilst singing he put the sand and dust on his head . . . He was so tall that the tallest of us only came up to his waist." After the dawn of the Enlightenment and the scientific method, eyewitness accounts of oddities arrived buttressed by facts. In Africa, a 19th century, English explorer met the sister-in-law of a local chief and noted, "She was another of those wonders of obesity, unable to stand excepting on all fours." He then cajoled the large lady into giving...
...that more deaths have occurred, the gelatin-band method of sealing may soon become widespread. Last week Warner-Lambert, a drug company that is also the world's leading supplier of two-piece capsules, announced that it would use a method of fusing the capsules similar to Lilly's in manufacturing its product line. This summer SmithKline has begun using the gelatin band in its Contac and Teldrin capsules...
...Democrats or Republicans, married or single, old or young, heterosexual or things my 19th century upbringing forbids me to name. In fact, few individuals seeking redress or public attention claim the advantage of numbers on their behalf. On the contrary: they petition from weakness as the surest method of attaining their goals. The proliferation of vociferous minorities has doubtless resulted in the righting of many wrongs. It has also led to a noticeable decline in the civility of public discourse. The United States has become at once more equitable, and clamorous, than before...