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...object to their trying to espouse their viewpoint, unless they do it with other people's money," he explained...
...story begins with an impersonal introduction to Father and Mother, alcohol and quaaludes. In these early scenes Baby is either an object of offstage. The appearance of an actor (Stephen Rowe) to give personality to Baby (now a college freshman) marks a transition. From that point the play becomes the very personal struggle of Baby to escape his parents' nightmare. For the audience, the switch from observing objects labeled "Mother." Father," and "Baby" to watching a real person in obvious pain is harsh, a switch in genre rather than mood. Although there are several good laughts after the transition...
...object of the conference was to promote cooperation between the public and private sectors in maintaining the nation's bridges, highways and sewers--many of which are in dire need of repair, explained Winthrop Knowlton '53. Director of the Center...
...through all stages of moviemaking. He sets "the single most important fact" about his subject in capital letters: NOBODY KNOWS ANYTHING. Films that cannot fail do so, disastrously. "We're home," Richard Zanuck once cabled his father Darryl after a movie preview. "Better than Sound of Music." The object of this enthusiasm was Star!, which Goldman describes as "the Edsel of 20th Century-Fox." Success is equally impossible to foresee; the author rehearses the litany of studios that said no to Star Wars, Raiders of the Lost...
...million a week collected by N.C.C. member churches goes to good works, and even in the modest portion of the budgets dealing with political controversy, only a fraction goes to disputed causes. But Theologian Carl EH. Henry, an I.R.D. board member, observes, no doubt accurately, that many Protestants object to helping Marxists with even a single penny: "It's like virginity. You don't lose it in percentages...