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...considerable air play, and in it Jim Stafford raises the rare-for country, at least-specter of homosexuality before he eases out with a trick ending. Composer-Singer Martin Mull, who satirized rock in Dueling Tubas, turns to country in a new album called Normal. One song, Jesus Christ Football Star, pokes fun at Bible Belt anthems...
...brief and graceful, often witty memoir of Morris' inner and outer life. The outer life proceeds from a happy childhood in an artistic upper-class Welsh family (he read Huck Finn, cherished animals, and was taught to "wash my hands before tea"), through years as a choirboy at Christ Church College in Oxford, some tune at Lancing, a public school (which James hated), through Oxford and the army (which he enjoyed), as well as work on the Guardian and the Times. (With a touch of male chauvinism, Morris satirizes the liberal Guardian's "stance of suffering superiority, like...
Dark Laughter. Robert Shaw as the bullet-headed lout begins by screaming something as subtle as "Shut up, for Christ's sake!" Zoe Caldwell asks with a desperate pleading, "Oh, when is he going to die?" Starting at such a level of anger, it is difficult for the players to find much new emotional territory to cover, and they do not. Strindberg intended moments of dark laughter in The Dance of Death, but the audience laughs with a bewildered edginess, as if not quite sure that it should...
...into the royal limousine, McConnell remembers saying with typical British cool: "Look, old man, these people are friends of mine. Don't be silly, just give me the gun." He moved forward to take the weapon, when suddenly "there was a blinding flash, and I remember thinking, 'Christ, the bastard's shot...
...this bizarre practice are ancient. The Parsis, as their name implies, are descendants of Persians who fled the conquering armies of Islam in the 7th century. Like their Persian ancestors, they are Zoroastrians, followers of a myth-enshrouded religious prophet named Zoroaster who lived some six centuries before Christ. Zoroaster's exact teaching is obscure but, as passed down by the Parsis, it is basically a vision of life as conflict between a spirit of goodness and light-Ahura Mazda -and a spirit of evil and darkness-Ahriman. The Parsis worship Ahura Mazda in the form of fire...