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...documentary comic book from the prolific Writers' and Readers' Publishing Cooperative. DNA for Beginners succeeds better than similar introductions from the same publisher such as Marz for Beginners or Frend for Beginners, which deal with less visual subjects. Although titled a "comic book," DNA for Beginners should not be confused with science-inspired pulp serials such as "DNA gents" (which details the adventures of a handful of artificial people created by a giant corporation to do its dirty work.) Thoroughly researched, simply written, beautifully laid out, DNA for Beginners is in fact more serious than most popular science writing. With...
...Thing," a mental and physical illness which creates irrational anxiety and fear in the mind, continuous bleeding and a racing pulse in the body. Cardinal plays the analyst here, setting in order the critical phases of her narrator's treatment, creating a series of dramatic episodes which take the reader through the patient's alternating confusion and revelation until the chaos of madness is resolved...
...blood, which flows continuously from the narrator's uterus for no apparent reason. "Cardinal at first uses this image very successfully to suggest that the blood flows from a wound civilization imposed on her as an unformed child, But in the and she ever plays this image hitting the reader over the head with the idea. She seems to write best when she tries least...
...prominent leader in the women's movement, but she claims her novels are not specifically about this activity. "I do not write for women; I write for myself. The process of writing is completely individual and natural. You must translate what you feel into words. The communication with the reader comes afterward. For me, writing is necessary--more necessary than financial success. If I wrote only for money, I am sure I would not be happy. I would rather be poor and write what I feel in myself, pushing...
...made it his full-time occupation. Atwater, 55, joined TIME in 1950, served as a correspondent and writer, then went to the Saturday Evening Post in 1962. In 1969 he worked on drug-education programs for the U.S. Government, and later roved Europe as a writer for Reader's Digest. Rejoining TIME in 1973, he eventually edited the Nation, World and Education sections. Then last fall Atwater assumed a different kind of editorial post: dean of the University of Missouri's 75-year-old school of journalism, the oldest and one of the most prestigious of such institutions...