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...even idiosyncratic, angle. Instead of running a segment about Viet Nam veterans in the U.S., for example, Lack plans to focus on the some 1,000 former soldiers who now live in Bangkok. "My mandate is to be new," says Lack. "I want people to watch this and say, 'Jesus Christ, I didn't know that...
...statistical measure, Spencer W. Kimball's reign as President, Prophet, Seer and Revelator of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints was a triumph. During his twelve-year ministry, the Mormon church nearly doubled its world membership (to 5.8 million) and its force of short-term missionaries (to 30,000). He ordered the addition of 31 temples to the 16 that stood when he took charge. Kimball, who had been an invalid for four years, died in Salt Lake City last week at the age of 90. Certain to succeed him is the senior among the church...
Sacred Heart University competes next with a Jesus Christ-themed dance complete with preacher-like robes that they tear off after 15 seconds to reveal glittery dark blue velvet body suits with silver trim. At one point two groups of girls lift their fellow SHU dancers into the air in what resembles a crucifix, complete with heads lolled to the side...
...museum is a film called The Town That Never Was, shown on a regular schedule in a small theater where the seats are carpeted rises. Hiroshima is never mentioned in this film, which for some reason begins with voices in prayer in church and the figure of Jesus covered with blood. Then the film proceeds to show the Chicago squash court and herky-jerky conversations among Szilard, Wigner, Edward Teller and the rest. A jalopy convertible winds up a mountain road in a scene that might have come from a Gene Autry western of the 1930s. There are sudden shots...
...acrylic in 1982 called Pushing the Right Buttons, a painting of two buttons, the one on top labeled "Launch" and the one beneath it "Lunch." Alex Grey, in 1980, painted Nuclear Crucifixion, an oil on linen reminiscent of Matthias Grünewald's painting in the 16th century, except here Jesus is crucified in a mushroom cloud. Michael Smith and Alan Herman produced a mixed-media work in 1983 called Government Approved Home Fallout Shelter Snack Bar, a survivalist food counter for the prudent nuclear family, equipped with provisions and three stools. In 1981 Robert Morris created a huge work...