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...have met the Curleys before. Under another name they are the central figures of novelist Roddy Doyle's Barrytown trilogy about working-class Irish folk, from which Doyle also adapted The Commitments for the screen. He's a writer who likes to pack lots of lively characters, talk and unpremeditated activity into relatively tight spaces, thereby creating the kind of lifelike untidiness, fractiousness and believable goofiness that American movie comedy, with its stress on easily summarizable concepts and subteen gag writing, can only dream about...
...church was slapped with a $1.6 million judgment last March after losing a libel case filed against the Daily Mail in Britain. New York's highest court just upheld a decision to deny academic accreditation to the Unification Church's theological seminary in Barrytown, N.Y. There are also assorted tax disputes. Last week ABC News reported that Moon may be facing another formidable problem. According to ABC, the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service was about to sue to have Moon deported...
...opposition to the Moon cult focuses primarily on worries about what it is doing to the minds of its young converts. In Dutchess County, N.Y., District Attorney Albert Rosenblatt is investigating complaints from parents that their children have been "brainwashed" in high-pressure courses at the church's Barrytown training center. Rosenblatt also wonders why so many Moon cultists require emergency-room treatment at a local hospital...
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