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...beyond question. The intense emotional and physical reactions of his audiences bear witness to the hole he has cracked through their fortified walls of intense self-repression. He is an unquestionably good actor and a competent singer and organist. His comparing himself to Mick Jagger is not at all baseless. Amidst an aura of religious righteousness rather than an atmosphere of Satanic evil, Marjoe, like Jagger, conducts an exercise in group masturbation legitimized by the central figure of authority, or in Jagger's case, of anti-authority...
...month the Tory government's Environment minister, Peter Walker, threatened in Parliament to introduce legislation forcing Hyams to find tenants or face a government takeover of his building. Hyams, who operates in a shell of almost total privacy, answered in a rare public letter accusing Walker of repeating "baseless assertions." His reply merely recharged the controversy, since it offered a glimpse into the secretive empire of Harry Hyams, 44, one of Britain's most mysterious millionaires...
...shortness of breath and a feeling of pressure on his chest one night six years ago, Sidney Schwartz of Manhattan sensed that it was a heart attack. Even as he called his doctor he began to worry about how his illness would restrict his activities. That anxiety proved baseless. At 63, Schwartz today is doing everything he did before his coronary-and then some. Says he: "I feel great...
...inflate his own income in his application to the FHA, which is supposed to determine whether a purchaser can really afford the housing. He would sometimes do this by listing a job he did not really hold. The indictments claim that in some cases Dun & Bradstreet would verify this baseless credit rating. FHA would agree to stand behind the mortgage, and Eastern Service would lend the buyer the money. The buyer would then often discover that the house was badly in need of repair, or that the mortgage payments were higher than he expected...
...drafted into the Soviet Army at the beginning of World War II. He served as an artillery officer in East Prussia and Germany, was decorated twice for bravery, and then sentenced to ten years in a labor camp hauling logs and laying bricks. Tass called his offence a "baseless political charge," probably incurred by speaking derogatorily of Stalin. In 1953 Stalin died and Solzhenitsyn was released from camp and exiled to East Asia with millions of other political prisoners. Following Krushchev's repudiation of the Stalin regime in 1956 Solzhenitsyn returned home to Rostov and was permitted to reach mathematics...