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George Bush realized he might be inadvertently backing the wrong horse in the Soviet power struggle when the text of a one-page letter from Boris Yeltsin reached him as he flew from Maine to Washington aboard Air Force One. Bravely resisting the coup against long odds, Yeltsin implored Bush to bring "the attention of the world and the United Nations" to bear on Moscow and "demand the restoration" of President Mikhail Gorbachev. Yeltsin added what for Bush are magic words, asking for "operational contacts." Translation: "Give me a call...
...Alas, Bellinger's nautical skills far outstrip his editorial talents: Between the Lines is a disappointingly bland affair that lacks the right-wing vitriol of Accuracy in Media or the brass and savvy of the publications put out by the Media Research Center. A recent issue featured the entire text of a George Bush speech that the national media had unforgivably failed to reprint verbatim. It was no Gettysburg Address. In the same issue a story ran that chided Gloria Monty, executive producer of TV's General Hospital, for wanting to use the show to explore such issues...
Those spiritual theatrics have earned Williamson, 39, recognition as "the guru of the moment in Hollywood," the most highly visible advocate of a mind- awareness text called A Course in Miracles. The 1,200-page spiritual- psychological tome was written in the 1960s by a now deceased Jewish psychologist Helen Schucman; it teaches spiritual self-betterment through exercises to clarify the subject's perception of reality. The book has spawned an informal network of more than 1,000 study groups based on its introspective meditational program...
...first spotted A Course in Miracles on a friend's Manhattan coffee table. By 1983 she was lecturing on the text for the Philosophical Research Society in Los Angeles, a metaphysical center, while supporting herself as an office temp. Today she gives three sermons a week, charging $7 a head, to those who can pay. In addition, she travels monthly to New York City, where her lecture brings in 1,000 listeners at a time. She has recorded more than 50 cassettes summarizing the course, lectures regularly on public-access TV and next year will publish her first book...
...play Ubu roi, by French Absurdist Alfred Jarry, about a loathsome clod (read: typical bourgeois) who murders the King of Poland and, supplanting him, ruins the country. Yet even with the events of the past two years before him, Penderecki draws no particular political symbolism from the text, and his harmless, rather charmless tonal score simply galumphs forgettably along. Far more Ubu-like are the sets and costumes by artist Roland Topor, which achieve startling new depths of vulgarity through their persistent evocation of feces and entrails. Is a triumphal arch crowned by a defecating man waving toilet paper black...