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...year was 1847, and the girl was Ellen Gould White, who was to become the leader of a new sect, the Seventh-day Adventists. A follower of Baptist Preacher William Miller, she had been one of thousands of Americans who waited in homes and churches on Oct. 22, 1844, convinced that Christ's Second Coming would occur that very day. When by midnight nothing had happened, many of the Millerites lost faith. They called the non-event "the Great Disappointment." But some still believed that Christ's Second Advent was imminent. Among them was Ellen White, whose conviction...
Movies like this are the price audiences have to pay for liking The Sting. Harry (James Caan) and Walter (Elliott Gould) are bumptious turn-of-the-century vaudevillians with more talent for stealing the customers' wallets than for stealing the show. Offstage they drink out of the finger bowls at posh restaurants, swat each other with their hats a la Laurel and Hardy and cause everything they touch to blow up in their faces, from a bottle of champagne to a vial of nitroglycerin. "They're not oafs," someone says of them. "They would require practice to become...
...real quest of both sets of thieves is for some spark of genuine humor amid all these outrageous contrivances. The screenplay is little help. It keeps turning up yokel lines like, "Paris - that's near Europe and Asia." Caan and Gould fall back on a series of frantic semaphores to the audience, calling attention to how adorably prankish they are being. Director Mark Rydell's notion of how to give shape to a scene apparently is to make it louder and faster. This does produce an occasional laugh, just as somebody pounding a piano with a baseball...
...feeling is that the magazine sold itself more, it had more intellectual content in the mailing literature than was produced in the magazine," Gould says...
...Gould said last night he is aware of the petition's existence, but that he and Lewontin have had nothing to do with the student group's decision to circulate...