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Cornelius, the programmer (Jenny Runacre) and the three scientists rather tentatively join forces to avert Armageddon and usher in a new age. It will be the time of what Cornelius' ex ophthalmic guru (Hugh Griffith) calls a "new messiah, born of an age of science." At the end of this giddy, spectacular and sometimes quite funny fantasy, the neo-messiah makes his debut...
...iron grating barred entry to the stall. The wooden sign now hung over the doorway. A few leftover baked goods lay on glass counter tops, and the huge photo portrait of Baby Watson, the mystical money-maker, still stared out over the deserted stall, a strange combination of Guru Maharaji and the Gerber Baby Food cherub, the latest formula for the alchemist's gold of advertising...
...idea was, instead of a drunken cocktail party, lo have a poetry reading," explained Poel Allen Ginsberg. The grizzled guru of the '60s then sat down cross-legged before a Manhattan audience of some 200 to celebrate his new book, Allen Verbatim, in verse with harmonium accompaniment Afterward, when asked what he considered the role of the modern poet to be, the winner of the 1973 National Book Award for Poetry replied with a new work titled "Ego Confession." "I want to be known as the most brilliant man on earth," said Ginsberg, "who overthrew the CIA with silent...
...sectors of the economy and hand over play-money to each other. Predictably, the business sector gets it all and the whole thing winds up being slightly less funny than an Ec 10 lecture. Some skits are more successful, but don't seem particularly original--the one about the guru who celebrates "the banal and the obvious" sounds a lot like the National Lampoon's Craig Baker series, for example, and "Euclid's Elemental" is second-rate Tom Lehrer...
Persuasive Manner. Nondogmatic American yoga is about to get its biggest shot in the pelvis, and from no guru. On 124 stations throughout the U.S., PBS will air three color shows a week featuring yoga demonstrations by Lilias Folan, a charming and svelte Cincinnati housewife. Folan, who has already become a success on Cincinnati's WCET-TV, producer of her current show, has sold 35,000 copies of a book called Lilias, Yoga and You (with a Braille version that allows the blind to feel embossed pictures of Lilias doing the Cat Stretch). With a persuasive manner that...