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Basically, summertime is guy time. Males drag their dates to the shoot-'em- ups and blow-'em-ups; and last year they made City Slickers, the Billy Crystal comedy about male bonding on a cattle drive, a gol-durned superhit. Will they flock to the baseball comedy A League of Their Own (July 1), even though it's about an all-girls' team? Will they sit still for Ron Howard's transatlantic love story Far and Away (May 22), with Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman? "I worry whether it will have any male appeal," says film analyst Grove...
...this fuss over a church that expounds no exotic new heresies and is unbesmirched by financial and sexual scandals? Hostility focuses especially on the rigid control the church hierarchy exercises over the lives of members. McKean, 37, who left the 3,700-member Boston flock in 1990 to head its Los Angeles offshoot, is the undisputed leader. He personally instructed 10 male elders and assigned them to supervise various regions around the world. McKean says these leaders govern by consensus but adds, "I'm the one who gives them direction." Says Al Baird, a veteran Boston elder...
...rugged, snow-mantled mountainside above Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan, Joloi Beishenov tends his flock on horseback, as his ancestors did centuries ago. During the cold season he shelters his 70 sheep in two traditional canvas yurts and lives alone in a spartan wooden shack until the warm weather brings his family up from the lowlands. This spring there is another new season, the opening out of the former Soviet Union; Beishenov has heard about new economic reforms, and hopes to rent from a neighboring state farm the strip of stony pasture he uses for grazing. But he is unmoved...
Before long the Bush campaign may be dealing with a new flock of OCTOBER SURPRISE rumors. And this time at least two senior Republican Senators are pressing for a fresh probe that would go beyond the allegations that the Reagan-Bush campaign team delayed the release of Iranian-held American hostages back in 1980 for political gain. The new claims -- unsubstantiated so far -- say that starting in 1986, George Bush, then Vice President, secretly visited Damascus several times to discuss possible Syrian help in freeing hostages held in Lebanon. But until his 1988 presidential campaign got under way, according...
Last month the rebbe gave permission to one of his flock to begin building a house for him in Kfar Habad, the movement's village in Israel. Schneerson has never set foot in the Jewish state, and his followers believe he will do so only at the moment of Redemption. The ground breaking was seen as a sign that the time is near. "The Messiah will come any day," declared Moshe Kruger, standing on the plot for Schneerson's house...