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Last week Hines sat silent and motionless as he went on trial for "forcibly ravishing" one of three white women he has been accused of raping. In addition to the police version of Hines' story, which included his escape in a car, two of the three victims identified him at a preliminary hearing. The trouble is that Hines, who had never been in trouble before, has a mental age of six years and an IQ in the 30s. Says his father, Richard Hines: "They had Tommy driving a car. That boy can't even ride a bicycle...
Skora concedes, however, that life with Arok has its lighter side. When they go to the local McDonald's together, Skora sends Arok up to place the order. The first time Arok took out the garbage, Skora made sure the garbage men were there; they sat motionless in the truck for 15 minutes afterward. Once at a Hilton hotel restaurant Arok brought down the house by strolling in and asking for a nice green salad with some...
...audience within a few feet of the actors. Something less intimate and more imposing might work better: The Changeling really calls for grand-operatic treatment--big gestures, declamation and all. Instead of entering wholeheartedly into this approach, or finding some other basis for their actions, the actors root themselves motionless on the stage most of the time to deliver their lines...
...scared," she says. There is a quiet murmur as the women-of all outlooks and incomes -huddle with their friends. A young man in blue jeans nervously opens a bag of coffee grounds and, thinking it is instant coffee, tries to brew a cup. His long-haired girlfriend sits motionless near by, her face blank. ABORTION CAN BE LONELY, reads a wall poster. From a loudspeaker comes the Beatles' Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds. At intervals a small child cries out for his mother...
...initiations and in morning discourses attended by 1,000 or more motionless visitors, Rajneesh is a master of psychodrama. As he explained bluntly to Malkin, "The whole abracadabra is just to console you. It is a toy. The purpose of sanyas is so that you go on hanging around, so that a single sound from me, or just a look, will bring you that moment of enlightenment." So potent is that effect that most of the ashram's 200 permanent residents no longer bother to listen to the guru's words. "It's the presence that matters...