Word: allenate
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...also dead but will nevertheless appear, as himself, with the blessing of his estate. "Five weeks after he died, we already had the rights," boasts producer Paul Greenberg. The screenplay posits Burns as a recent arrival in heaven, a Level One angel desperate to reunite with his wife Gracie Allen, who preceded him to heaven way back when and is now a Level Six angel. The only way Burns can make Level Six himself is by returning to Earth, coming to a mortal's aid and thereby earning his wings. Frank Capra is not coming back to direct...
...violence [ESSAY, Aug. 11]! Someone finally has the nerve to tell it like it is. Let the U.S. send a message to Yasser Arafat that neither we nor Israel will deal with him or any other Palestinian until he controls the terrorists and ends their attacks, suicide or otherwise. ALLEN SOKOLOFF Bensalem...
...they have done is put off the real task of cutting government spending to a manageable level. The financial threat to Medicare and Social Security is looming on the horizon, but all the politicos can focus on is getting re-elected. Term limits are the only answer. ERNEST J. ALLEN Dunnellon...
Arrangements like Allen A.M.E.'s, in which government funds flow through nonreligious church-affiliated corporations, are relatively uncontroversial. But critics and civil libertarians say the new programs, in which churches become agents of the welfare system, are different. Welfare recipients may soon be forced to pray in order to receive benefits, they say, or to watch religious videos while they wait to talk to their caseworker. "I'm worried we will see tax dollars being used to evangelize as well as provide social services," says the Rev. Barry Lynn, executive director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State...
...Game he plays the ultimate deadbeat dad. His character, Jake Shuttlesworth, is doing time for killing his wife. Freedom beckons, in the form of a Governor's pardon, if he can persuade his estranged son Jesus, a high school basketball star played by Milwaukee Bucks guard Ray Allen, to sign with an agent. The movie, produced by Swishin' an' Dishin', has not yet been sold for distribution, and Lee expects to wrap up filming on Coney Island early in October. In time for the season's first...