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...occasionally, as the evening traffic-prostitutes and pimps, bedraggled mental cases and loiterers-begins to saunter up the boulevard, one can sense something of old Hollywood. In front of the Chinese Theater, a knot of tourists may be gathered, staring at the imprint of Jean Harlow's heels in the cement, TO SID: IN SINCERE APPRECIATION: JEAN HARLOW: SEPT...
...Antichrist, this false prophet, must be brought down." But his oratory and leadership inspired a mere 60 protesters to join him in waving signs and Bibles at the papal motorcade. For weeks Paisley had insisted that "anyone blessed by the Pope is cursed." When John Paul II spotted the knot of angry dissenters on a side street, he turned and, with a smile, coolly bestowed his blessing upon them...
...black, and the locale is South Africa in 1950, a day of reckoning is inevitable. No one knows this better than Athol Fugard, who has probed the corrosive effect of apartheid on his fellow South Africans in eight of his 16 plays, ranging from The Blood Knot to last season's award-winning A Lesson from Aloes. To each of his works, he brings a tormented conscience, a touch of the poet and a scalding honesty...
...look for too much in Emerson; he claimed so much for himself: "Of the universal mind each individual man is one more incarnation ... A man is a bundle of relations, a knot of roots, whose flower and fruitage is the world." Emerson was also a bundle and knot of contradictions. He recoiled against the doctrinal chill and constriction of New England, yet he became a sermon and a prayer. His rhapsodies were lovely and extremist in the way of a Puritan metaphysician: "I am God in nature; I am a weed by the wall." -By Lance Morrow
While the Crimson netminder and the rest of the defense suffocated UMass Harvard a offense went to work, Bartenfelder scored the first goal on his hat trick five minutes into the second period and captain Mike Davis and Rich Doyle each added one to knot the score at 4-4 when the halftime horn blew...