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...good works he preached, Ritter responded with a colorful act of muscular Christianity: he paid $50 to a couple of toughs to scare drug dealers into vacating their apartments. He used the space to house homeless children. Later he opened a shelter for runaways in a three-room hovel on East Seventh Street and solicited money to help the hundreds of teenagers who flocked to the shelter: drug addicts, prostitutes or simply abandoned, lonely adolescents with no place...
...into a Ukrainian village and, at their leader's heartless command, shoot down a deserter. Just another businesslike day in the life of Commissar Klavdia Vavilova (Nonna Mordukova). But even in a revolution that boasts of sexual equality, women will get pregnant. Vavilova must bear her child in the hovel of a Jewish tinsmith (Rolan Bykov) and his family. Their enforced intimacy sparks a cultural exchange: the commissar becomes feminized, and the tinsmith's wife (Raisa Nedashkovskaya) becomes a bit of a feminist. Outside, though, the Jew's children are taunted and tortured in a kind of dress rehearsal...
...across the country, from the presidential palace to the tiniest hovel, Chileans watched and listened to what the Pontiff said and how he said it. While the visit was only one stop in a two-week South American tour that also included Uruguay and Argentina, the six-day Chilean stay was the centerpiece. The question on everyone's lips: What would the activist Pope tell his authoritarian host and oppressed flock? Pinochet, 71, is one of South America's two remaining military dictators.* A practicing Roman Catholic, as are 10 million of Chile's 12 million people, he has ruled...
...works properly, from elevators which stop and start at random, to air conditioners which alternately broil and freeze their victims. The intrusion of technology into daily life is visible in the presence of giant, serpentine ducts which protrude into every living space, from the richest apartment to the lowliest hovel...
...symphonic score, and a golden fairy dust that shines through the windows like God's blessing. For every scene of raw artistry--as when young Celie's brutal husband "Mr." tears her away from her beloved sister Nettie--there are three others that seem photographed by Rainbow Brite for Hovel Beautiful. The book's famous lesbian encounter between Celie and the charismatic blues singer Shug is played as if it were a sweet game a mother would teach her adoring child. Male violence is less sexual than paternal. Passion is wanting throughout, and a radiance that emanates from something other...