4The Daily Tar Heel Tuesday, November 25, 1986
Writer's talent lost on 'Lost'
"The bullet entered his head
slightly above and behind his left ear.
and the air pocketed with the report.
The shot jarred him off balance, and
his tense face hurtled sideways,
blurred like a swiftly unwinding
bobbin of thread. His name was
Sherman Abbot; he was twelve years
old."
Thus begins the first novel by Gary
Devon, "Lost," a chillingly unreal
istic horror book. Witness to Sher
man's gun showmanship is his
younger sister Mamie; she
exclaims,uOh, Sherman, I wish you
wouldn't do things like this to me."
Sherman's body recovers from the
wound but his mind does not. He
loves Mamie and resents his parents
and brother Toddy. He tries to kill
the rest of the family by blowing the
house up. "Mrs. Abbot tore at the
smoky upstairs window that
Rosemary
"In the lower courts, it's my
opinion that judges hardly ever try
to overturn legislative acts, which is
what we were trying to do with our
case," he said. "They know it's going
to be taken to a higher court no
matter what the decision, so they
usually hold off on taking action
against the act unless it's very
obvious it needs to be overturned."
Mayor Wallace echoed the com
ments made by Graham, saying he
anticipated the ruling by Lee to be
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wouldn't open her soundless, wild
face smeared against the glass as her
white fists went on pounding against
it more and more feebly until she
was engulfed in smoke."
What ensues is what nightmares
are made of. Mamie survives and is
kidnapped from the hospital by a
loving, confused woman named
Leona. Sherman, of course, survives
and begins to track them down,
wreaking havoc and leaving a trail
of blood behind him.
Really now. Sherman is a mere
boy who has just tried to blow his
own head off, yet he walks halfway
from page 1
one in which no firm decision on the
suit was made.
"No lower court judge is going to
go out on a limb making a yes or
no decision on a legislative act,"
Wallace said.
"It's a decision that in my opinion
clearly needs to be made by an
appellate court judge," he said.
"That's an opinion IVe always held
on this matter it's just a question
now of at what appellate level the
decision will be made, and a question
of how long it will take for the case
to reach that final level."
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across Pennsylvania chasing Mamie,
Leona and the other two kids that
Leona found along the way. Sher
man's only companion is a big ugly
dog named the Chinaman. This dog
is so big that people won't give
Sherman rides. Sherman winds up
killing even his own dog in the end.
Devon is a good writer almost
too good for the sensationalist junk
he's dealing with in "Lost." His
descriptions are beautiful, his char
acters are unique and compelling,
but his plot is as dull as old dish
water. A boy knifing a poor drunk
woman is not what good writers
want to concentrate on. Even though
she deserves it, Devon pushes her
death on the readers too suddenly
for them to appreciate it. Sherman
has no motive for murder except for
the bullet hole in his head, but he
still acts too reasonable the rest of
the time. His actions just don't flow
very logically.
The ending is a textbook horror.
Brother finds sister; brother tries to
kill kidnapper, and tables turn;
brother dies. What will happen to
Mamie? The way Sherman died is
enough to screw up a 40-year-old,
let alone an impressionable eight-year-old.
At the end, Mamie becomes as
unrealistic as Sherman was through
out; she figures out that Sherman
was wrong, she totally accepts her
kidnapper, and she does not even cry
herself to sleep after watching her
brother die. She must be an amazing
child.
Maybe Devon will write a better
book next time, like a decent mys
tery. His talent for writing is obvious,
but his choice of plot was too bloody
and boring.
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Non-pizza
takeouts
take hold
By ROBBY WILDERMANN
Staff Writer
Your stomach says "Feed me,"
but at the same time, it says "Not
pizza!"
You are not alone. Lots of
students are looking at other
types of foods when they get those
late-night munchies.
Mark Emery, a senior from
Charlotte, said "I think the pizza
places are going downhill because
they know they have a guaranteed
market. But the other places have
to be competitive."
Probably the most-ordered
"non-pizza" food is chicken,
according to many takeout bus
iness owners in the local area.
Roman Wings has delivered
chicken from its West Franklin
Street store since 1982, and subs
since 1984. Bob Hill, manager of
Roman Wings, said his restaurant
does a heck of a lot of business."
He said that on a good night
Roman Wings may deliver well
over 100 orders.
Another business taking
advantage of the takeout demand
is Time Out, Inc., located in
University Square. Eddie Willi
ams, president of the small cor
poration, said his drivers deliver
about 40 to 50 orders a night.
"We opened up a (second) store
specifically for delivery
demand became too much to
handle in the original Time Out,"
Williams said.
Buisness has become so good,
in fact, that Time Out has leased
land on Chapel Hill Boulevard in
Durham to open yet another
delivery and drive-through
restaurant.
Williams attributed the success
of Time Out to the fact that they
offer around-the-clock delivery
and that "people just want an
alternative to pizza."
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specializing in subs, Greek dishes
and (dare we say it) pizza. Pam
Reynolds, spokeswoman for
Marathon, said that she couldn't
give an estimate of how well her
delivery buisness did, but char
acterized it as "fair." Marathon
has been delivering to hungry
Chapel Hillians for about four
years.
Tea Time Deli on Graham
Street offers a Southern-style
menu. It only began delivery
recently and is doing about 10 to
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Tuocday
12:30 p.m. International Health
Forum presents "Health
Care in El Salvador and
Nicaragua" with Dr.
Aurora Velazquez, Dr.
Herbert Betancourt, and
Dr. Ernesto Selva Sutter in
105 Berryhill.
3:30 p.m. Career Planning and
Placement Services will
hold an orientation work
shop in 210 Hanes.
4:15 p.m. Career Planning and
Placement Services will
have a resume-writing
workshop in 210 Hanes.
Thanksgiving holiday
library schedule
Wednesday 1126 8 a.m. until 5 p.m.
Thursday 1 1 27 closed for Thanksgiving Day
Friday 1 1 28 8 a.m. until 5 p.m.
Saturday 1 1 29 .9 a.m. until 5 p.m.
Sunday 1130 resume regular schedule
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Time Out on a delivery run
15 orders a night.
Mary Norwood, the manager
of Tea Time, said they were
currently in the process of reor
ganization, after which they hope
to do more deliveries.
For those who Warn to order
something more unusual, Jade
Palace Chinese and Seafood
Delivery on Main Street in Carr
boro, might be the way to go.
Manager Long Chau said his
employees made 10 to 25 deliv
eries a night.
5:45 p.m. Anglican Student Fellow
ship will have a Thanksgiv
ing Dinner at Chapel of the
Cross for $2.
7 p.m. Russia and East Europe
Area Studies will have a
free public lecture,
"Poland Today," in 355
Hamilton.
8 p.m. The College Republicans
; will hold their last meeting
- - of the semester, in 209
Manning.
UNC Young Democrats
present David Price as
guest speaker at a meeting
tonight in 224 Union.
Icms cf Interest
Alpha Chi Sigma is selling carna
tions for $1 each. Orders will be taken
in the Pit Nov. 25, and Dec. 1-2. The
flowers will be delivered exam week.
North Carolina State will sponsor
a free concert in Stewart Theater by
the N.C. State University Concert
Orchestra and the University Choir
at 8 p.m. Milton Bliss and Jonathan
Kramer will lead "Last Words of
Daniel," by Randall Thompson, and
"Gloria," by Mozart.
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