The second was claimed, for a little less, by a man with a shaven head, a leather coat and a heavily bandaged right fist.Back to top >>WednesdayFROM Heidar Aliev airport I flew back to Moscow, where the streets seemed to be dissolving in a sort of primeval winter ooze: you might half-expect a great, hairy, prehistoric arm to reach out from the slush and drag you under.
"What in the hell's a Albanian?," a guy named Clement asks in Chapter 4 of "City Primeval" (1980).
Leonard's early crime novels, like "Mr. Majestyk" (1974) and "City Primeval" (1980), are grim crime stories peopled by enraged vigilantes and determined policemen.
The structural similarity of his crime fiction to his westerns was sufficiently pronounced for City Primeval (1980) to be subtitled "High Noon in Detroit", but the whiff of danger was always stronger than the perfume of romantic love.
Given a rush job to write Atyeo's obituary in 1993, I was astonished to find no biography to crib from - but now John Hudson and Tom Hopegood have made amends and well and warmly done the Wessex folk-hero due honours with a fully rounded, expertly told tale of a luminary of football's fond, primeval 1950s (Atyeo, Redcliffe Press, Bristol, £17.50).
In film and television, crocodilians are represented as dangerous obstacles in lakes and rivers, as in the 1986 Australian comedy film "Crocodile" Dundee, or as monstrous man-eaters in horror films like Eaten Alive (1977), Alligator (1980), Lake Placid (1999), Primeval (2007), and Black Water (2007).
The finding corroborates an influential new view of early human origins advanced by Bernard Chapais, a primatologist at the University of Montreal, in his book "Primeval Kinship" (2008).
The Batur Temple (today called Pura Ulun Danu Batur) in the district of Kintamani is situated on the caldera of a primeval volcano (see Wälti 1997; Lansing 1991, 2006; Reuter 2002).
In his book "Primeval Kinship" (Harvard, 2008), he describes a further stage in human social evolution that occurred when individual bands allied with those with whom they exchanged daughters.
Others portray the woods primeval, like "Fallen Trees" (1974).
IM The Clearing, by Tim Gautreaux Sceptree, £7.99) Louisiana in the 1920s is primeval America.
