Word: christian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...those in the U.S. bemused by the Koranic punishment [March 12] of the wicked (hand lopping for thievery, stoning to death for adultery)-almost never carried out-it is pertinent to recall a Judaeo-Christian injunction: "If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son, who will not obey ... the men of the city shall stone him to death ..." (Deuteronomy...
Bonn's counterintelligence assumed that Rödiger and her swain had fled to East Germany, as a number of other unmarried secretaries have recently done. Three of the women were employed by officials of the Christian Democratic Union, while a fourth worked at NATO headquarters in Brussels. All were apparently ensnared by a now familiar East German gambit: assigning handsome male Communist agents to lure well-placed secretaries into love-and spying...
...Part of Christian's problem with characterization may stem from lack of direction. On the whole, though, directors Selden and Wiprud, with assistance on Ear from Cathy Lo, have done an excellent blocking job, ensuring that the staging is interesting and dynamic. Kugelmass, however, suffers from poor pacing...
...most entertaining of the three shows, marred only by the lackluster performance of Jennifer Christian as Belinda. Many of her lines were inaudible, perhaps because of what sounded like laryngitis, combined with poor diction. Reciting dialogue with little or no emotion, she often acts too immature, pouting when she is confused or upset and picking at her fingernails, a habit that quickly becomes annoying...
DIED. Jamil M. Baroody, 73, longtime Saudi Arabian Ambassador to the U.N. and dean of that body's delegates; of cancer; in Manhattan. A Lebanese Christian by birth, Baroody joined the Saudi delegation to the U.N. at its first meeting in San Francisco in 1945. A loquacious speaker who enjoyed the complete confidence of King Faisal, he could turn bombastic, even pushy (literally), when defending his positions on Zionism and other matters, moving one of his colleagues, Ambassador George Bush, to describe the crusty diplomat as "an unguided missile...