Word: pauperizing
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...bite. From her vantage point near Herod's Palace, Claudia describes Christ's passion in gory detail: "Jesus, bound to a pillar, and standing in a red pool of his own blood." After the Crucifixion, Pilate loses favor with Rome, and ends his life a sick pauper, trembling on the verge of-is it faith? "Ye who pray," Claudia cries, at the thrilling climax, "pray now for Pontius...
...Oliver! is not as bad a show as it ought to be. The archetypal force of the Dickens story still faintly magnetizes the stage. Fagin is a kind of storybook witch, but the power of witches exists to be broken. Oliver is destined for storybook transformation-the ill-born pauper turned well-born prince, the maltreated underling who bests his oppressors, the orphan boy who finds a father and a home. Every boy who ever had a nightmare or a dream, every adult who ever yearned for renewal or rebirth, feels the pull of Dickens' fable...
...doctors-for those who qualify. It offers matching federal funds to states for health care for the aged out of general tax revenues, thus costs the wealthy taxpayer more than the poor to support. Its opponents point out that its eligibility requirements practically force the aged to take a pauper's oath and that, in any case, it has not worked out in practice: of 24 states that have adopted it, only six have it in full operation, and 90% of all recipients live in only five states...
Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Part three of The Prince and the Pauper, Mark Twain's classic...
Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Part 2 of The Prince and the Pauper, a film made in England and starring Guy Williams and 14-year-old Sean Scully in the dual title role. Color...