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...follows Stars Fell on Alabama. Bob tells a regional joke: "It is not true that possums are born dead by the side of the road." He insists that Terry fill out an application to the clan on a cocktail napkin. A Northern visitor is worried that he means the Klan. But no, this invitation is to join the Clan Maxwell Society. "We meet four times a year, wear kilts, promote Scottish culture." Another clan member, Kenn, a fourth-generation American with a Pavarotti girth and an approximate voice, whose favorite songs are Old Scot Mother and Tobermory Bay, opens tonight...
...that the end of this picture's celebration of the traditional American verities. Struggling on against the ravages of the Great Depression, the elements (a devastating tornado) and the wickedness of the unenlightened (a hypocritical banker, a crooked cotton merchant, even the Ku Klux Klan), Edna is comforted and aided by her two utterly winning children (Yankton Hatten and Gennie James), by a shrewd, gentle, black man (Danny Glover) whom she redeems from rootlessness and petty crime, and by a blind man (John Malkovich) whom she redeems from bitterness. As these archetypes of disenfranchisement assemble in her kitchen...
...brutal attack on the friendly and generous Newsome caused outrage in the tiny mountain town, brought the local Ku Klux Klan out of the shadows and put tremendous pressure on police. They finally arrested four local youths, relying on the statements to investigators of one of them. That man, Roderick Maurice Forney, initially denied involvement, but later, during a session with Charlotte Hypnotist Stann Reiziss, blurted out a barely coherent story in which he implicated at least eight people in the murder, even though physical evidence at the scene suggested the presence of only one. Two of the three other...
...pressure students into conforming to practices that violate their consciences and could open a back door to school-sponsored prayer. Some fear the bill could turn classrooms into forums for fringe cults, such as the Moonies, and a variety of political and cultural groups, ranging from the Ku Klux Klan to gay rights organizations. A crush of meetings could strain budgets for maintenance and supervision. "The tragedy is that the President has been able to direct attention away from the real problems facing education to the non-issue of prayer in schools," says San Francisco School Superintendent Robert Alioto...
...fuller names. State Department experts were analyzing copies of the letters for further evidence that they were a shoddy attempt to reinforce Soviet claims that Los Angeles presents a security risk to foreign athletes. Said Samuel Royer, Maryland Grand Dragon of the Invisible Empire Knights of the Ku Klux Klan: "In no way was the Klan involved...