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...neuter his talent forever. The Color Purple is speckled with epiphanies, especially in a flash of crosscutting that magically transplants an African plain, where Nettie has gone as a missionary, behind a Georgia bush; Celie looks up from her hymnal and--wham!--a bulldozer crashes through the chancel of Nettie's church thousands of miles away. None of this bravura, though, has liberated the attractive cast. Whoopi Goldberg suffers knowingly as Celie; Danny Glover, as "Mr.," looks vainly for a note to strike besides befuddled menace; Margaret Avery inhabits Shug without illuminating her. Everyone seems reluctant to let loose here...
...money was found last night by two freshmen, it was announced at the concert Undergraduate Chancel members were reportedly unable to reach the two to confirm the recovery...
What had begun as a titillating scandal was turning into a major political embarrassment for the government of Chancel lor Helmut Kohl...
...reason the forecasts proved wrong is that, as Jenkins put it, "the people have turned back from the Falklands to unemployment and the economy." On that turf, Jenkins' experience as Chancel lor of the Exchequer from 1967 to 1970 helped him a good deal. Jenkins, however, now faces an uphill battle. The Social Democrats and the Liberal Party reached 44% in the polls last November, ahead of both Thatcher's Conservatives (27%) and the Labor opposition (27%). But in the wake of the Falklands victory, the Tories have become the favorites, with 45%; the Social Democrats, with...
...ground is always settling. They cannot blame 95 years of aging on us." The Trinity congregation has endured other annoyances, however. Wind pressure popped several windows off the Hancock tower. A construction worker's water bucket plummeted through a stained-glass window. A doorframe fell into the chancel's roof. "First they overwhelmed us," said a Trinity parishioner last week. "Now they're trying to destroy...