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...Pfund have become more prevalent since the onset of the baseball strike--he's received many inquiries from groups hundreds of miles away, who travel en masse to Toledo. About 15 people from the metropolitan Detroit area, who consider themselves "baseball fanatics," were on hand Saturday, having travelled via caravan to the gravel lot--free parking--outside the stadium...
Gently rolling, woodsy Dunn, Wis. (pop. 4,965), could never pass for Shangrila. But the karma was fabulous there last week, thanks to a visit by the Dalai Lama, 46, the exiled leader of Tibet's Buddhists. Some 1,500 pilgrims arrived in a caravan of black-and-yellow school buses at the town's 13-acre Deer Park Buddhist Center. The occasion: the spectacular Kalachakra, the wheel-of-time ceremony that all but guarantees participants nirvana. Never before performed in the West, the Kalachakra has been given only six other times by the present Dalai Lama...
Mounted on a white steed, Bridegroom Mohammed rode at dawn to the portal of Salama's palace. He was preceded by a caravan of 20 camels laden with trunks of diamonds, emeralds and rubies. If these gifts seemed mere baubles to the bride, it was because her father Sheik Hamdan had given her an entire town with three skyrise apartment buildings, a luxury hotel and 55 shops and boutiques...
...perfervid shockers has always been poised between a scream and a giggle. Now, with Knightriders, Romero has taken a bigger risk: he blends Arthurian legend with modern-day bikers-Excalibur meets Easy Rider-and dares the audience to laugh at the noble exploits of working-class jousters. The Camelot caravan juggles lofty ideals and hand-to-mouth reality as it journeys from one small town to another, exhibiting swordsmanship in battles where fellowship precariously reigns and only feelings get hurt. They are the most benign of outlaws; they embody the spirit of regional cinema...
...seat. Following them in the motorcade was Presidential Press Secretary Jim Brady. Half an hour earlier, his deputy, Larry Speakes, had asked, "You going with the President to the hotel?" Brady's casual reply: "Yeah, I think I will." With other agents following in the "battlewagon" protective car, the caravan moved swiftly through the ram-slick streets to the hotel. Everything was going smoothly; the trip seemed quite routine...