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Three seniors--Bill Levine, Walter Reese and Harry Buell--anchor Bucknell's 3-4 defense. Levine, who blocked a punt and caused a safety in last week's game, has 20 tackles and leads the team in sacks (three). Nose Tackle Reese has recorded 25 tackles...
...illegal drugs. Making a similar pitch in Houston, Customs Commissioner William von Raab invited some 65 Texas lawmen to inspect a sophisticated new communications center for coordinating surveillance against smugglers. Alive with radar screens, computers and scrambled-speech telephones, the Blue Fire command post will eventually anchor a "radar picket line" along the porous 2,000-mile. border with Mexico, the passageway for one-third of the drugs entering...
Light of Day, like many of Paul Schrader's scripts (Taxi Driver, Hardcore, Cat People), uses a strong, simple story to anchor a metaphor for social, familial or sexual relationships. But here he is so true to the characters' desperation that he deprives his film of the electric juice rock 'n' roll lends to much more routine movies. And he is so keyed into the cliches ordinary people use, both to express and to hide from their feelings, that he presses all irony out of the dialogue. This does pay off in two climactic hospital scenes where the raw exposition...
...that consensus faces a spirited challenge. The latest installment of the Anchor Bible, a new study by C.S. Mann, a respected Gospel expert, boldly challenges Mark's precedence as "at best debatable, and at worst indefensible." If Mann is correct, Matthew would be restored as the probable first among equals. The world of biblical scholarship thus appears headed for another round in an old and sometimes heated controversy...
...Anchor Bible volume is the latest in Doubleday's distinguished series of new translations and line-by-line studies of all the biblical books. When completed, the set will consist of 65 volumes by 46 Protestant, Catholic and Jewish experts. Mann's 715-page analysis took nine years to complete. An Anglican clergyman, the author was a Bible professor and dean at St. Mary's Seminary and University in Baltimore from 1968 until his 1983 retirement. He is best known as co-author of a 1971 Anchor Bible volume on the Gospel of Matthew...