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...build the 4,600-student Oral Roberts University and the 294- bed City of Faith hospital and research center. The City of Faith is rumored to be in financial straits, but Roberts will divulge no details. The overall budget of his enterprises reportedly runs to $120 million. Roberts' Sunday half-hour still appears in 192 markets, but the "Prairie Tornado" is showing his age. The spotlight is shifting to a daily talk show inaugurated in 1984 to star Son and Heir Apparent Richard Roberts, 37. Due for partial opening next July is Oral's $14 million Healing Center, which will...
...Minor; Two Legends; The Blessing of God in Solitude. Francois-Rene Duchable, piano (Erato; LP or CD). Franz Liszt, the archetypal piano virtuoso, wrote only one sonata for his instrument, but what a sonata it is! Bril liant, bombastic, tender, devilishly diffi cult, structurally innovative, the nearly half-hour work is the summa of romantic piano technique, and every modern pianist must test his mettle with it to claim Liszt's mantle. Most opt for a straightforward, flashy approach, hoping to conquer the piece by sheer dexterity. Duchable, a young Frenchman with an especially rich tone, adopts a more reflective...
Even the first half of the movie is offensively bad, although I can't figure out precisely why. After all, the first half-hour is simply a reenactment of the TWA terrorist hijacking this past June. Having followed those events fairly closely, I didn't find the dramatization either surprising or suspenseful. When director Menahem Golan showed a clip of the pilot (Bo Svenson) being interviewed by reporters, he froze the footage to make certain that the audience would notice that this was the same image that had appeared on the covers of both Time and Newsweek during the actual...
...backing for Savimbi has never been firm. Until it was repealed last July, the 1976 Clark Amendment banned any American assistance for his forces. Even today the Administration's position is equivocal. After Reagan's half-hour meeting with Savimbi, the President said that he wanted "to be very helpful" but did not commit himself to a specific offer of aid. For his part, Shultz noted the difficulty of devising a formula for Angola that would be "effective." Nonetheless, word leaked out last week that the Administration was prepared to send covert aid to Savimbi. Various Congressmen have also proposed...
FIVE DAYS SHORT of the 432nd anniversary of Lady Jane Grey's death Paramount Pictures begins its limited release of Lady Jane, a two and a half-hour historical epic featuring a slightly embellished version of the events surrounding the girl-queen's life and death. Brimming with Renaissance cantatas sung by an invisible chorus, elegantly outfitted noble lords and ladies, broad, sweeping shots of the glorious English countryside, meticulously reconstructed regal interiors and a heavy dose of iconographical pageantry, Lady Jane would seem more at home in the context of such decade-old films...