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...guarantees of freedom of religion, the bill is a boon for other traditional faiths such as Islam and Buddhism. But it's theRussian Orthodox Church that was the driving force behind the move. The church has increasingly seen its hold over Russian souls wrested away by foreign upstarts from Hare Krishnas to Mormons to Aum Shinri Kyo wannabe-cults. Calling on a war chest (supplied by its duty-free, multimillion dollar oil export and cigarette import deals, according to the Russian-language weekly Kapital), the Church wields enough political clout to squelch the competition -- and keep Russian souls at home...
Eugene Izzi wrote pretty good detective stories. So they say. But he was never in the same class--business class, with every suit in every seat in every 747 out of O'Hare reading the same paperback--as John Grisham or Robert B. Parker. This reviewer never happened to read any of the 16 Izzi novels listed on the op-title page of his last thriller, A Matter of Honor (Avon; 424 pages; $24). A lot of other people didn't either...
Great performances have been easier to find than great plays on Broadway this season. Michael Gambon, making his U.S. stage debut last fall, stormed impressively through Skylight, a lesser work by David Hare. Antony Sher's luminous portrayal of English painter Stanley Spencer makes Pam Gems' Stanley look better than it probably is. Christopher Plummer is currently having a high old time impersonating the boozing thespian John Barrymore, though the vehicle, Barrymore, is little more than a facile stand-up monologue...
...this is one industry, and one company, that glows white hot with anger between its labor and management. United, Northwest, USAir, TWA and Continental are lined up with labor negotiations like so many jets waiting to take off from O'Hare. Does this mean a year of strikes? Not necessarily, but the situation at American is a sort of wind sock for the industry...
...shorts also jauntily ignore the rules of physics. In "High Diving Hare," Bugs Bunny remains suspended on a floating platform in mid-air. He turns to the viewer and says, "I know this defies the law of gravity, but you see, I never studied law." This tongue-in-cheek, yet outrageous approach creates a comedy so simple and rich that no child or adult should be able to withhold a smile...