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Capital punishment, says L.D.F. Lawyer Joel Berger "attempts to vindicate one murder by committing a second murder. And the second murder is more reprehensible because it is officially sanctioned and done with great ceremony in the name of us all." Not simply just as bad, but worse: this may be the central emotional truth for those who most passionately disapprove of executions. The cretinous killer or the seething psychopath is a loose cannon. But the well-orchestrated modern execution, careful, and thoroughly considered, is horrible because of its meticulous sanity. Executions are worse, in the abolitionists' moral scheme, because...
...verse and accordion-pleated angels sit 27 third-and fourth-graders. The mood is quiet and serious. Lessons start with the Pledge of Allegiance, then a stanza of America. The students pray aloud for relatives; they thank God for Bobby's new glasses. For 45 minutes, their teacher, Joel Allen, 28, leads the students through Bible study. "Who made you?" he asks. "God made me. Job 33:4, "the children answer. During the course of the 6½hour day at the Bridgeport Baptist Academy, the students, ages four to 18, are drilled in the basics and the Bible...
Elvis Costello and the Attractions: Imperial Bedroom (Columbia). A funny valentine from a man who is still delighted to be one of rock's most idiosyncratic talents. Billy Joel: The Nylon Curtain (Columbia). Joel's longest reach and his strongest shot...
...Twas the Night Before Christmas," Dec. 18. First shown in 1974, this cartoon has it all: sour old Scrooges, children in despair, a judicious town mayor, even gift lists returned from the North Pole marked "Not Accepted by Addressee." Narrated by Joel Grey, this adaptation of Clement Moore's famous poem is not recommended for people who fear mice...
...Patty Duke Astin show up on It Takes Two (ABC, Thursdays, 9:30-10 p.m. E.S.T.) fighting the kind of lightly amusing skirmishes in the battle of the sexes, married division, on which the dust should long since have settled. A rich kid (Ricky Schroder) gives his dippy dad (Joel Higgins) lessons in modern maturity on Silver Spoons (NBC, Saturdays, 8:30-9 p.m. E.S.T), while the viewer, dazed by unwelcome memories of Trouble with Father, takes the lumps...