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Terry Ray Robinson as Judas provides the single most powerful head of steam to keep the show moving through these cloudinesses of interpretation. His stage presence and confident characterization are matched by Chad Hummel as Pontius Pilate, who pads on and offstage like a lion, and Suzanne Tanner as a warm and believable Mary Magdalen. Isaacs, unfortunately, adds little to the pivotal role of Jesus besides his face; his voice and assurance improve markedly toward the end of the show, but his projection of any moral leadership or savior-like attributes at all wavers...
...demand for this kind of housing may soon lose steam, however. Although industry analysts expect sales of mobile homes to rise another 10% next year, from an estimated 235,000 this year to 258,500 units, they think that falling interest rates will contribute to far stronger growth in sales of conventional housing. One reason: mortgage rates for mobile homes are usually pegged to consumer lending rates, which are not falling as quickly as rates available to site-built home buyers...
...INTERNATIONAL MOVEMENT to preserve tropical forests has just begun to pick up steam. Last month 350 conservationists at a meeting in Indonesia of the World National Parks Congress decided to end the unchecked deforestation most societies had taken for granted. At this year's meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, tropical forestry was not lumped under the general topic of botany, but given special consideration...
...Bernard's life was going down the tubes: his wrath become disillusionment, his world view one of a fraud. The futile search for the right woman lost some steam. Since the Bicentennial, Bernard has all but dropped from sight...
...Arthur Clarke notes, most technological change seems to occur when a pressing social need is met by a particularly useful innovation, like the steam engine or telephone. As it happened, only a few visionaries like Clarke anticipated the need for satellites. Yet somehow, in less than a generation, they have firmly established themselves in the fabric of contemporary life, shrinking time and space, almost as if the world craved to be brought closer together. Perhaps the space age's real giant steps were not the ones on the moon but the ones that are being taken overhead, like Columbia...