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Atheist Madalyn Murray O'Hair's son William [May 26] is a living symbol of what God can do for a person, no matter how far he may stray. God still loves his mother, if only she would turn...
...Madalyn Murray O'Hair became the nation's best-known atheist in 1963 when, partly as a result of her suit, the U.S. Supreme Court forbade mandatory prayers in public schools. A fellow plaintiff in protesting Bible reading and/or recitation of the Lord's Prayer in Baltimore schools was her teen-age son William J. Murray III. He went on to become a publisher, but later joined his mother in Austin, Texas. In 1975 he reorganized the headquarters of her American Atheists and revived its monthly magazine. In 1977 he broke with his mother and tried...
...might be necessary to ensure Chrysler's survival but could be denounced by union workers faced with losing their jobs. Confidential information will have to be closely guarded. And many skeptics worry about any tampering with the traditional arm's-length relationship between management and labor. Says Murray Weidenbaum, a member of TIME'S Board of Economists: "The consumer in me worries about any variation in the corporate state...
While most of the film's humor consists of raunchy, Animal House-type yuk-yuks, complete with crashes, screeching cars, and general destruction, Bill Murray's performance as Thompson provides the movie with its only originality. Whether hungrily gobbling amphetamines, babbling stoned before a college audience, or scrambling around imaginary linebackers in a hotel lobby, Murray's lunacy is inspired and hilarious. Proving himself a gifted comedian, Murray, even at his most lunatic, displays a masterful control over his performance and an ability to rise above the banality of the script and the mediocrity of the direction...
...Murray emerges tainted but unscathed from Where the Buffalo Roam's idiotic Big Message scene in which Thompson, confronting Nixon in a men's room, pleads with the president to look out for the "doomed." Nixon leans over the growls the stupidly profound line, "Fuck the doomed." The fact that Murray makes this scene bearable is testimony to his talent...