Word: moths
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...moth ate words. That seemed to me a strange event, when I heard of that event, when I heard of that wonder, that the worm, a thief in darkness, should devour the song of a man, a famed utterance and a thing founded by a strong man. The thievish vistant was no whit the wiser for swallowing the words...
Friday night at 8 p.m. pianist Oscar Peterson moves into Symphony Hall with guitarist Joe Pass. Neither is really coming out of moth balls, but the tickets still aren't a bargain. If classic jazz piano interests you (Cecil Taylor fans may be turned off by Peterson's stuff) then the $5 and up ticket prices won't affect...
Poor Godfrey struggles through years of rejection before a rich young man accepts him, much as a lepidopterist might collect a grotesque rare moth. When the young man dies, he leaves Godfrey enough money to go to Britain's best plastic surgeon. What emerges is a face of such beauty that it suggests a saintly soul. Far from it. With beauty comes vindictiveness. Godfrey is bent on revenge for being spurned so long. He becomes a famous preacher who cries out to vast audiences: "Christ died for man to atone for sin. Can we do less...
...planes stored at Tucson have a proud history, and from time to time, some have been pressed into service to meet a national crisis. During the 1948-49 Berlin airlift, scores of World War II transporters were hustled out of the desert sanctuary. Airworthy combat planes came out of moth balls at the outbreak of the Korean War, and hundreds of single-engine A1-E fighters that had served in Korea saw action again in Viet Nam. Recently the Pentagon ordered a number of troop-carrying helicopters back to the line...
...wouldn't kill a moth, spider, snake or lizard," he told TIME Correspondent Bernard Diederich. "I don't believe in violence. I'm a spiritual man. I am in the mystical world. Few people know how spiritually, mystically inclined I am. They say that man is afraid to unlock the door to himself. I am not one who has to be afraid. My opponents can't beat me. They are based on negativity. I am positivity. When they hate, I love. I send out waves of love to them. I pray for them. They hate...