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...wring humor from the Southern idioms without mocking them. In Petrified Man, a beautician named Leota reminisces about her recent courtship: "Honey, 'me an' Fred, we met in a rumble seat eight months ago and we was practically on what you might call the way to the altar inside of half an hour." In The Wide Net, a none-too-bright husband thinks his pregnant wife has drowned herself; an awkwardly large party is assembled to drag the Pearl River. Of course, no body is found, but Doc, who owns the net, pronounces himself pleased with the expedition...
...nation's few remaining high-fashion occasions, several soignée ladies appeared in elegant jumps that attracted as much attention as the Yves St. Laurent gowns (one spectacular number was all black velvet, festooned with pearls). Brides have been jumpsuiting their way to the altar. Says San Francisco Manufacturer Doug Thomkins: "Not every woman in town is wearing a jumpsuit. But every woman has one hanging in her closet...
...Anglican priest, Tekere was born in the fertile Umtali district of eastern Rhodesia in 1937. He was educated in mission schools and as a boy served at the altar of Salisbury's Anglican cathedral. His first job was in a religious bookstore. In 1959, at age 22, the young Anglican was jailed briefly for distributing black nationalist literature. Imprisonment only intensified Tekere's political zeal, and in 1963 he became one of the founding members of Mugabe's Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU). By the time he was jailed a second time, a year later...
...crowd of 200,000 jammed the Piazza Maggiore and made their feelings known. Popular President Alessandro Pertini received only token applause, while Prime Minister Francesco Cossiga and other political leaders were greeted with whistles and boos. Only seven of the victims' coffins were lined up before the main altar for the public Mass; most of the bereaved relatives had preferred to bury their dead privately as an act of protest against a state they blamed for failing to check terrorism. In other cities throughout the country, tens of thousands of demonstrators staged protest strikes against the bombing. Concluded...
...strives for epic humor. There are aliens, who appear suddenly, smoking dope by the treeful and sucking our heroes aboard. They give them "space coke," a powerful enough high to send the boys into orbit. And there are these awful dream sequences, including one depicting attempted necrophilia on the altar of some Mexican...