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...have found what pays and have decided to stick with it, serving up a steady diet of Woody Allen, Bogart, and James Bond, with only an occasional surprise thrown in. Downstairs, the two other theaters show slightly offbeat first-run films. They don't always stick to the Spielbergian gospel to that has poisoned the suburbs, but are willing to screen films like Entre Nous, currently showing...

Author: By John F. Baughman, | Title: A Flick is Just a Flick | 6/24/1984 | See Source »

Wherever he trots on the globe, Juan Carlos preaches the universal gospel he learned in Spain's transition. "If there's an international figure that stands for negotiation, peaceful resolution, and statecraft, it is him," comments Karl...

Author: By L. JOSEPH Garcia, | Title: A King for Democracy | 6/7/1984 | See Source »

...about the balance between promiscuity and monasticism, and between innocence and cynicism. Witness the title: to modern lascivious ears, "wise virgin" sounds like an innocent losing here naivete. But in the "Treatise of Heavenly Love," the pet project of a medievalist named Giles Fox, the phrase refers to the Gospel parable of the wise and foolish virgins. Those who have "kept burning that holy light of virginity in their lamps can present themselves spotless to their Lord and Lover," says the thirteenth-century sermon, but their concupiscent comrades will be damned by their "fleshly lusts and carnal appetites...

Author: By Elisheva Urbas, | Title: Clever Failure | 5/2/1984 | See Source »

...represented a large gamut of musical influences. His very proficiency made him seem timeless--it became hard to believe that anything would stop the continuing progression of successful Gaye albums, a legacy recently sustained by his Oscar-winning "Midnight Love." Hard to believe--as the evidence indicates--that the gospel-playing father who started Gaye's career would put three bullets into his son's chest, reportedly over "bad blood" between them...

Author: By Jonathan S. Sapers, | Title: A Life of Musical Healing | 4/6/1984 | See Source »

BOWIE HIMSELF did more than 300 concerts in 1983 alone. Aside from the AEC, he travelled with Roots to the Source, a band made up of his ex-wife Fontella Bass, her gospel singing mother Martha, and brother David Peaston, along with drummer Philip Wilson (an old pal), and Chicago based saxophonist Ari Brown. Bowie also formed the new Brass Fantasy group from the core of the New York Hot Trumpet Repertory Company, and he plans to record with them at the end of this summer...

Author: By Ari Z. Posner, | Title: All That Jazz | 4/6/1984 | See Source »

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