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Fittingly enough then, the band is the star of this show. You'll like them if you liked The Who, a band I like very much. Tommy is the closest thing around to rock's Messiah, and it is as sacreligious to rape the "Acid Queen" as it would be to rearrange the Hallelujah chorus. The band is tight, clean, and faithful to the original...

Author: By Thomas M. Levenson, | Title: One More For Keith | 5/2/1979 | See Source »

Works of Berio, Carter, Messiah, Gerhard, Martino, Antoniou, and Schoenberg--Institute of Contemporary...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Weekly What Listings Calendar April 19-April 25 | 4/19/1979 | See Source »

...certain of his direct descendants who were known as Imams. Most Iranian Shi'ites believe that' Ali's twelfth successor, who disappeared mysteriously in 878, is still alive and will return some day as the Mahdi (the Divinely Appointed Guide), a Messiah-like leader who will establish God's kingdom on earth. Meanwhile, Shi'ite religious leaders, such as Iran's Ayatullah Khomeini, have wide powers to advise the faithful on the presumed will of the "Hidden Imam." Sunni religious scholars, the ulama, have less authority, though both branches of Islam consider their leaders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Report: A Faith of Law and Submission | 4/16/1979 | See Source »

...passage heavy with theological significance, he rejected efforts by modern radicals to view Jesus Christ as a political Messiah. "People claim to show Jesus as politically committed, as one who fought against Roman oppression and the authorities and also as one involved in the class struggle," said the Pope. "This idea of Christ as a political figure, a revolutionary, as the subversive man from Nazareth, does not tally with the church's catechesis." The Gospel and the church, he preached, must transcend all political ideologies. But while the church's mission is "not social or political," the church...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: John Paul vs. Liberation Theology | 2/12/1979 | See Source »

...addition to all his work for CBS, Lee is now negotiating a deal with NBC for the Silver Surfer, a cosmic comic messiah who floats above earth on his surfboard uttering windy profundities. ABC, meantime, is casting a covetous eye on a (no doubt) shapely Spider-Woman. Lee has optioned a dozen heroes to Universal, and is now thinking about setting up his own production company. "I've always thought of myself as being in show business," he says. "It's just taken the world a long time to realize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Marvels of The Mind | 2/5/1979 | See Source »

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