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...rambling verses to buttress its portrayal of the would-be killer as a tortured psychotic who cannot be held accountable for his actions. "[Pretend] you are Satan's long-lost illegitimate son/ a solitary weed among the carnations," Hinckley wrote in one poem, "a child without a home/ the loser of a one-man race." Another verse notes: "I have become what I wanted to be all along, a psychopathic poet...
...Holly (1-1 in 1982) is a one-man pitching staff for Princeton, which is so far 2-4 in the EIBL and overall...
Popularity is one measure of a performer's achievement, but in this case it is the least compelling. Pryor is not a flash, a freak, even a one-man trend; he is the soaring demon angel of movies, concerts and Grammy-winning albums. As a comedy monologuist, Pryor is without peer. Drawing his material from the black hole of ghetto life and death, Pryor uses his dramatic power to magnetize his listeners into the fire-flash fear of the moment-even as his skewed comic perspective offers distance, safety, reassurance. As a straight actor, he has the uncanny knack...
...church without consulting a synod involving other leaders. But to do so, says the report, he must first seek to "discover the mind of his fellow bishops and of the church as a whole," a requirement which is light-years away from Vatican I's emphasis on one-man rule. The report avoids the term "infallibility," but the Anglicans were willing to grant that such personal decrees might be "preserved from error." The two sides differ, however, on whether this errorless quality is conveyed automatically (the Catholic view), or depends on later acceptance by the church...
...nomination of another black, William Bell, to head the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, was withdrawn late last week by an embarrassed White House. Bell, who runs a one-man minority recruiting operation in Detroit that has failed to place anyone in the past year, had been roundly criticized as being unqualified to lead the agency. In his place, the Administration named Clarence Thomas, a black Republican and graduate of Yale Law School who now serves as Assistant Secretary of Education for Civil Rights...