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When Walton met Scott and his wife, he was so attracted by the couple that last year he invited them to move into his $100,000 A-frame house outside Portland. Last week, after talking to the FBI, Walton said that his new guru had never mentioned any involvement with the S.L.A. Walton said that he had last seen Scott two or three weeks ago, when his friend had told him he was "going away for a while." Added the basketball star: "All I can go on is my personal experience, and I had some of the most beautiful experiences...
Later the women will learn how to pound their fists on their husbands' chests in childlike rage. "Men love it," says the movement's founder and guru, Helen B. Andelin, 55. A devout Mormon, she developed her methods years ago when she felt her own marriage going sour. Now, after eight children and 32 years of marriage, her husband adores her, she reports, and even helps out at the Fascinating Womanhood Foundation in Santa Barbara, Calif. Eleven thousand teachers have been trained to teach feminine arts and craftiness the Andelin way in schools and churches across the country...
...jump from being a bunch of good-time lads playing dungeons in Liverpool to the very top of the pops in a series of brisk scenes that capture both the suddenness and improbability of such success. Once he has it made, MacLaine becomes in quick succession a poet, a guru, a her mit and finally a cultural casualty. He is aided and discomforted through the entire trajectory by his personal man ager (Adam Faith), and the business man (Larry Hagman) who has turned him into a conglomerate...
...wonder is that after 20 years of dealing intensively with sexual problems, the authors have so few new insights to offer. Or maybe, to try it aphoristically: "He who would climb from the valley of the sexual engineer to the mountain of the sexual guru must avoid the mudslide of the muzzy and the avalanche of the obvious...
Laura Quinn, fortyish, opens her suburban Boston home to Jim Cogan, 17, the son of Bronx relatives. He is awaiting arraignment in New York, charged with involvement in a lunatic guru's plot to blow up the public library. His future is on the line. If she hopes to persuade him to change, Laura realizes, she will have to put her past on the line...