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...Areas like education and health services, which for a long time have been in the private domain of the churches, are being taken over by governments. A few church leaders welcome this, because it releases already overstretched resources for new forms of Christian witness and service; but very many lament the loss of this primary locus of direct evangelization...
...French that things are happening). Quebec has sprouted dozens of novelists, playwrights and chansonniers who sing their culture's praises?and bewail their unhappy history as a conquered people. One of the most popular plays in Quebec City, La Complainte des Hivers Rouges (The Red Winters' Lament), by Roland LePage, salutes the leaders of an abortive 1837 rebellion against the British with the lines...
...fishing in its waters and adopt a 200-mile limit. The U.S. argues that tuna are migratory and can be caught without restrictions anywhere. That is good for California tuna men and for the Japanese, who sweep 40,000 tons of tuna annually from Micronesian waters. But the islanders lament that they are losing millions of dollars in licensing fees...
Side two is the exposure of Joel's hidden talents, his tremendous creative ability. Though much of the side is not of as high caliber as the material on side one, it is remarkably diverse. Probably the weakest cut of the side is "Vienna," a bluesy lament filled with the sounds of Dominic Cortese's accordion, which still does not compare to "New York State of Mind," the blues entry and consistent show stopper from Turnstiles...
...Three's Company has managed to make a popular sex symbol out of a refreshingly non-macho male. Soap, after a slow start, has begun to change its intially idiotic female leads (Cathryn Damon and Katherine Helmond) into believable middle-aged heroins. Though there is much to lament about ABC's blockbusters, they are not beyond hope-and neither, it is safe to assume, is country that settles down to watch them each Tuesday night...