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...Omen pictures. The next preview heralds the return of The Texas Chain Saw Massacres, a picture ahead of its time. This trailer's teaser scene shows a raging lunatic perfecting his gasoline talents on a man in a wheelchair--straight down the middle. But that film's creator has a new surprise for us--Funhouse. Opening this week, Funhouse features a deformed killer who "lives off the flesh of young innocents." Last but not least is a young woman turning into a green, pulsating, nine-foot-tall wolf-pig in The Howling. Now that's entertainment...
...soul-searching ultimately turns this guilt to the question of religion--did God create homosexuals as they are? But such an attempt must overcome a hoary stumbling-block of philosophical disputation--the problem of free will versus necessity. A view that sees sexual preferences as determined by the omnipotent creator absolves the guilt and blame attached to homosexuality: all human flesh then fits into the natural order of His creation. But this theological determinism deprives us of our moral worth as human beings--for we have no hand in the choice. Such a different conception of God and the universe...
...eyed, banananosed sailor who smoked a corncob pipe. III-favored, inarticulate, but possessed of a keen sense of "humiligration," Popeye quickly rose to star billing in the strip. His broad and timeless appeal lay in his simplicity and in his embodiment of a universal revenge fantasy. As his creator Segar put it: "I'd like to cut loose and knock the heck out of a lot of people, but my good judgement and size hold me back. Instead I use my imagination and let the sailor do the scrapping." Of course, Popeye never used force unjustifiably. "Treat ever' body right...
...Viennese court seem like a cynically corrupted version of Grover's Corners. Early on, when Salieri is 16, he kneels in prayer and makes a Faustian compact with God. He vows to excel in virtue, magnify his talents and live his life as a tribute to his creator if only God will grant him fame...
...child centered. But they are not childish, and most are as serious as any adult novel or history. It was because of the patronizing attitudes that greeted her work that Beatrix Potter denied creating for the young: "I write to please my self," she insisted. And P.L. Travers, creator of Mary Poppins, sardonically concurred: "I didn't write for children at all ... the idea simply didn't enter my head. I am bound to assume that there is such a field as children's books - I hear about it so often - but I wonder...