Word: madnesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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with alien life forms?but, of course, no one will believe his story. The rest of Close Encounters' plot follows Roy and several other UFO sighters, including a mysterious international scientist (Truffaut) and a neighborhood woman (Dillon), as they overturn their lives in a mad attempt to arrange a rendezvous with the extraterrestrial visitors. When an earthling makes actual contact with aliens, that is "a close encounter of the third kind." (The first kind is sighting; the second, physical evidence...
...winter league's opening day in the baseball-mad Dominican Republic. Yet 9,000 sweltering Dominicans chose instead to crowd into Santo Domingo's new Sports Palace for a different event: the windup of the "Festival of the Family," a series of revival meetings. As the high-spirited, hand-clapping throng fell silent, a handsome, wavy-haired spellbinder named Luis Palau took the microphones and thundered about an impending "climax of history." After more than an hour onstage, Palau appealed for commitments to Jesus Christ?and converts streamed onto the playing floor...
...certainly eye-catching, and Ferric Fang's orchestra does justice to the bouncy music. Best of all, the set (designed by Robert Grossman, with hilarious graphic designs by Lee Bearson and Tom Gammill) keeps the audience laughing even when the script is flagging. Like the background in a Mad Magazine cartoon, the French Gothic Palace of Justice offers all sorts of hidden gags, which usually take a while to figure out, but are genuinely worth the effort to decipher. Unfortunately, the lulls in the action on stage offer the audience far too much time to search the background for funny...
...dove and outspoken Israeli government critic. That Shahak has been and continues to be allowed "to express his ideas freely without removing him from the University" is perhaps the best refutation of Shahak's claims. It is unfortunate that The Crimson devoted not inconsiderable attention to this publicity-mad-man. Jessica Sandler...
...full head of steam now, bowled over his last hefty pursuer. "That," said an admiring opponent, "is one of the best broken-field runs I've ever seen." OJ. Simpson passing the 10,000-yd. mark in rushing? No, Reggie Jackson ending the baseball season with a mad dash through victory-crazed fans to the safety of the New York Yankee dugout and clubhouse...