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...visibly" upset. After that is the famous scene where he knocks the temple down. Samson stands between two pillars at the center of the stage. They have pillars with wire frames and canvas made to look like rock, and they hang from the ceiling. There are two men crouched behind the pillars, which are fake, so when he pushes his hands out, the two men do something and the pillars fall together. Then all these fake rocks fall, and I get hit by a rock and fall dead. But then, the frightening thing is, one of the two real pillars...
...died in 1933, after predicting the future destruction of Tibet, he left no clues. According to custom, however, attendants placed his body in a shrine facing south. Within several days, cloud formations appeared over the northeastern end of the city. A giant star-shaped fungus grew overnight on a pillar in the northeast corner of the Dalai Lama's room. And, several days after his death, the head of the deceased ruler had turned from facing south to facing towards the northeast...
...nightmare is finally over. Universities have reopened. New research institutions are being established. Learning has become respectable again, especially the study of scientific subjects. Indeed, science and technology may be the most important pillar of Peking's so-called Four Modernizations; the others are industry, agriculture, and defense. Under this great national enterprise, comparable perhaps to the building of the Great Wall or to the U.S. moon program, China expects to have 800,000 scientists and engineers by 1985, more than double the present number. Says Vice Premier Fang Yi, the shrewd bureaucrat who is China's minister...
...moved. Just like a tree that's planted by the water, we shall not be moved." They placed coat hangers at the motel doors of the pro-life supporters, with signs reading NO MORE COAT HANGER ABORTIONS. They even tacked a "proclamation of religious liberty" onto the pillar of St. Peter in Chains Cathedral to protest what they consider the Roman Catholic Church's attempts to coerce all Americans into following the church's teachings against abortion...
...disown her, turn her out, but continued to love her--what else? --and as venereal disease began to waste her, answered for her. "Juanita is not feeling well today," her mother would say. There are some lots that must be escaped, even if it means turning into a pillar of salt. "Gentlemen," Hardwick reminds us, "do not appeal to all women...