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...commercials for Stroh's on hot summer afternoons. In the 1970s Easterners began smuggling Stroh's out of its Midwestern market, turning it into somewhat of a cult beverage. Stroh's claimed to have a special flavor brought on by "fire brewing" in vats over direct flame instead of the steam-heated vats used by other brewers...
...years before the action begins, the boy, Shelley Solomon (Evan Handler), had quit his pre-med studies to join the cult of the Unified Congregation. From a temple of that cult, Shelley has vituperatively proclaimed that his divorced "earth parents" are dead and that "I am fed by the flame of the Holy Essence...
International controversy tends to imbue not just flowers but everything about Jerusalem with a nervous symbolism. Particularly state visitors. Thus French President Francois Mitterrand ceremonially carried a beribboned sheaf of flowers to the eternal flame at the Holocaust memorial of Yad Vashem last month, but he politely refused to go anywhere in the Arab districts of East Jerusalem. When Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak balked at extending his state visit to Jerusalem out of fear of appearing to condone Israeli control, there was talk for a time of his dashing through the Israeli capital without spending the night...
...toys that no child has ever imagined. Gondolas glide serenely through the perfumed, decadent atmosphere of La Serenissima-Venice, dark and dangerous. A placid bourgeois home suddenly explodes with the nightmarish visitation of a sinister, cadaverous physician who walks through walls and bursts from fireplaces in a ball of flame...
...sudden. Reese ignities. Zap. He's hit one too many balls into the tin, and he's completely fed up. No way is this arrogant, snotty kid going to beat him. He screws up his forehead in fury, his eyes flame, his face turns beet red. Not particularly fast, he somehow starts to run down every shot. Not smooth or aesthetically appealing to watch, he somehow knocks shots just out of Benello's reach. By the time Reese has racked up the next three games, his opponent has fled the court and charged through the crowd of spectators with...