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...prepared and usher him into their Magic Theater. As rendered by Director Haines, the experience is like being sealed inside a demoniac color television set. The Magic Theater experiences convince Harry, in the words of the novel, to "see the ruins of my being as fragments of the divine." Lesser mortals would have just called the TV repairman...
...teachers left the college after being denied tenure. Adams charged that the lesser qualifications of the two women hired to replace them is evidence of a "revolving door" effect, with women constantly maintained at lower level jobs...
...number of lesser questions remain, and Los Angeles County District Attorney Joseph P. Busch has said that he would reopen the case only if a court directed him to do so. Sirhan's attorney has been preparing an appeal for two months, and plans to file it soon. Skeptics have long been troubled by the fact that Sirhan's trial dwelt on his motives and mental state when he pulled the trigger and not on the other evidence. But unless a new inquiry turns up facts more convincing than those that have inspired the current renaissance of doubt...
...restrict himself to century-old American settings. He is also at home in classical antiquity (Jason and Medea) and the late Dark Ages (Grendel). He fills pages with royalty and serfs, knights, monks, prisoners and jailers. Magic is taken for granted; humble facts are made to seem miraculous. A lesser writer might stretch the profligate inventiveness of this single book into a long career...
...bowl fever, its lone pigskin potentate--Joe Paterno--is a walking, talking epidemic. When the Temples and the Boston Colleges fail to translate enthusiasm into bowl bids, Paterno's Nittany Lions from Penn State (13 miles from the gas station) stalk inexorably the big-time football jungle that lesser Eastern mortals never dare to enter. Six times in seven years they've played in bowls, and they've dumped Texas (Cotton, 1972), thrashed LSU (Orange, 1974) and given Oklahoma (Sugar, 1973) the Sooners' biggest scare in years...