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Theologian Arnold laments that the FBI did not take the underlying religious issues more seriously. The pull of faith was so strong that some Branch Davidians who escaped wished they had instead been consumed by the flames. "They took that to be a big joke, all that talk about the seven seals," he says. "The seven seals was his language, and if you didn't speak that language, there was no way of showing him what...
...Revelation, who alone could open the seven seals and foresee the end of the world. FBI agents made some effort to get a handle on the theology at work, but scholars have been trying to explain these passages for centuries with little success. Among those they consulted was Phillip Arnold, a specialist in apocalyptic faiths whom Koresh respected. He was happy to serve as theological bait, a means of helping Koresh get his message out to the world and thereby bring about a peaceful resolution...
...longer, until the number would be complete both of their fellow servants and of their brothers and sisters, who were soon to be killed as they themselves had been killed." Which merely meant that after a short time had passed, their time to die would be upon them. So Arnold and his colleague James Tabor from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte worked to sell Koresh on a less threatening interpretation...
Home Improvement, in which comedian Tim Allen stars as Taylor -- a husband, father of three boys and host of a TV handyman show -- covers all its bases shrewdly. It combines the ironic edge of Allen's stand-up comedy -- a sort of , macho flip side to Roseanne Arnold's beleaguered-housewife rants -- with traditional family-show sentimentality. It caters to the baby-boom audience while poking gentle fun at it (the kids are puzzled when Mom, played by Patricia Richardson, mentions such names as Edgar Bergen and Ed Sullivan). It toys with the sitcom format in ways both inventive...
...DIRECTOR CALLS THE SHOTS; THE cinematographer shows you the light. In VISIONS OF LIGHT, a superb documentary by Arnold Glassman, Todd McCarthy and Stuart Samuels, directors of photography are revealed as painters on film, Rembrandts with an Arriflex. The movie blends clips from Hollywood's wondrous black-and-white era with reflections by such modern masters as Michael Chapman ("A cinematographer's job is to tell people where to look"), Allen Daviau ("What's important are the lights that you don't turn on") and Conrad Hall ("There's a language far more complex than words"). If only the vast...