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...last week law officers found a onetime bowling-alley maintenance man named Stephen Holiman, 68, who claimed to be Chenault's spiritual mentor. Holiman, a black, has devised a curbstone theology which holds that God is black, the ancient Israelites were black, and that today's blacks descend from the Old Testament's Jacob. He took credit for introducing Chenault to these ideas, as well as to his belief that black ministers are "liars" who rob their followers of "millions of dollars a year." In Chenault's Columbus apartment, police found a list of ten black...
Each dive should be an adventure straight from Jules Verne. As the subs plunge two miles down, they will descend into a world of inky darkness where even their powerful spotlights will be unable to penetrate more than a few dozen feet. Pressure will be great enough (about 2 tons per sq. in.) to crush ordinary submarines. Indeed, the scientists have already had a preview of the project's perils. Last summer, during preliminary surveying, the Archimède crashed into rocks several times when it was tossed about by the strong bottom currents. The little sub had another...
BUTLEY Directed by HAROLD PINTER Screenplay by SIMON GRAY Ben Butley, who teaches English literature at a London university, is generally befogged and intermittently besieged. An arch ex-wife seeks him out with the news that she plans to remarry. Students descend on him for tutorials, inundate him with papers like "Hate and Redemption in A Winter's Tale. "Edna Shaft (Jessica Tandy) is upset because Butley(Alan Bates) encouraged a student to quit one of her stifling seminars. Joey Keyston (Richard O'Callaghan), a junior member of the department, is planning to move in with his lover...
Greenberg and Hantz arrest dope dealers by using a variety of enterprising but dubious techniques: they break into apartments from the roof, descend from tall, tall buildings on long, long ropes...
...that the five schooners that must tilt and collapse when a wind machine blows at the beginning of the opera will jam some night and halt the entire production. Another perilous moment occurs in the Royal Hunt and Storm scene in the second act. Four human ghosts must descend from 60 feet in the air into the audience's vision, while the giant turntable is about to spin forward, all without disclosing the projection equipment. Any electrical trouble then would end the evening...