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...just as the feud threatened to get really ugly, NBC withdrew its challenge. The battle had got "much too personal," Wright said. It became clear, however, that something more than conscience had come to bear: nbc announced that it had reached an agreement with Murdoch under which nbc would be able to transmit some of its cable programming over Murdoch's Star TV network...
...distance from the Australian art world-which, by the early '60s, had begun to see him as a talisman of integrity-was only outwardly bohemian; its ori-gins lay in the sort of calm, fanatical pride that cannot bear the distraction of company. One thinks of him scratching around between studio and sea like Shakespeare's exiled misanthrope Timon on the beach: "Come not to me again, but say to Athens/ Timon hath pitched his everlasting mansion/ Upon the beachEd verge of that salt flood...
Those warnings bear remembering in these days before Easter, when Christians are invited to dwell on the deepest mysteries of faith. Far from being resolved by centuries of scholarship and devotion, the paradox of miracles seems only to deepen. Certainly they occupy a strange place on the spiritual map of America. When Time asked in a poll last week whether people believe in miracles, 69% said yes; and the fastest-growing churches in America are the Charismatic and Pentecostal congregations whose worship revolves around "signs and wonders." Tens of thousands of people gather in a pasture in Georgia...
...fireworks, some ministers find a value in the provocative new readings of Scripture. A sturdy faith can bear a lot of doubt; believers build muscles by raising questions. But where the inquiry pauses, the challenge begins. "We have to go back to the basics," argues Billy Graham. "Jesus performed these miracles to prove his divinity, and so I accept them, and I accept them by faith. I can't prove everything scientifically. But when I do accept the Scriptures by faith, it has an impact in my own personal life, and I can apply the principles Jesus taught to everyday...
...then again, other films conspire to leave us still deeper in the dark. Why couldn't "Billy Madison" have been the main character in "Forrest Gump," for example? They're equally stupid and both bear the name of a leader from south of the Mason-Dixon line. Or how about "True Lies" as a new title for "Basic Instinct?" How about "Basic Instinct" for just about every movie with a nude Sharon Stone...