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...months ago, when their mother Tamey left them in Poplar Bluff, Mo., to search for work elsewhere, the children wondered if the holidays would ever come again. When they joined her in Charlotte, N.C., Tamey had still not found a home. At first the clan lived in cramped motel rooms, then in a homeless shelter for families. But now Tamey, her boyfriend Bobby Warren and the children, 7 and 10, have an apartment, a tree ringed with presents, and a vision of their lives that hard work and good luck delivered just in time for Christmas...
...WIDENER NO-TELL MOTEL: Sex in the Widener stacks is the great Harvard achievement. But how many of us ever actually accomplish this noble ambition? We are too scared of being Ad Boarded, too scared of running into other couples, too scared of forgetting birth control and being locked in for the night with little...
...city, inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people" (others might say "insanely perfect"); and more than 40 years ago, S.J. Perelman was barreling down the yellow brick road to L.A., the "mighty citadel which had given the world the double feature, the duplexburger, the motel, the hamfurter, and the shirt worn outside the * pants." Yes, we know, all too well, that "going to California" is tantamount, for many people, to going to seed...
...problematic for other reasons. The audience has just been successfully convinced that the basement of Cabot was an inner-city bus stop--the set for Fool for Love merely rearranges the cinder blocks into a sink and adds a bed and a table to represent May's motel room. In addition, the "special effects" fall flat. The audience must suppress giggles each time a character leaves the room and mashes his feet in the gravel off-stage...
Swaggart's organization has been in decline since rival preacher Marvin Gorman circulated photos of Swaggart visiting a prostitute in a New Orleans motel three years ago. The scandal forced Swaggart to resign from the Assemblies of God, the nation's largest Pentecostal denomination, and nearly 200 television stations dropped his weekly program. The ministry took another hit last month when a jury in New Orleans found that Swaggart and others had defamed Gorman with allegations of adulterous behavior and ordered the group to pay $10 million in damages...