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...operate the huge Thomas Road Baptist Church during his many absences. He appeared as usual in his church's octagonal sanctuary to preach at the Wednesday-night prayer meeting. His message, | "Live Unto Him," was loosely based upon II Corinthians 5: 14-15. The week concluded with a particularly pleasant chore: mingling amiably with the 3,500 en- tering freshmen at Liberty University, his proudest creation...
...also applicable to the bars around Harvard Square: the hardest thing about them is getting in. But, while the presence of an off-duty cop or huge bouncer in from of big state warnings can be frightening to the neophyte Square drinker, the atmosphere inside most establishments is pleasant and easygoing...
...year-old paterfamilias, Charles. But as temperatures and voices rise, unflattering revelations occur. The internecine tennis matches are actually contests of will: "Bryan, a fragile 18-year-old loser, walked to the net to shake hands with his uncle. Ellen was so proud of the open, pleasant look Bryan managed to maintain . . . She knew how much that look cost." The wishes of Grandfather are, in fact, imperious demands; the grumbling about local workmen disguises arrant and irrational prejudice...
...told TV interviewers that they were being treated well by the Amal militiamen who had taken them away from the original hijackers, and their appearance did not contradict those assertions. Three hostages were interviewed by ABC's Charles Glass at the end of lunch in what looked like a pleasant seaside cafe near Beirut. Conwell, who lives in Muscat, Oman, went so far as to assert that "many in our group have a profound sympathy for the cause" of their Amal captors, namely freedom for 745 Lebanese held in an Israeli prison...
...such caveats should be applied to Back to the Future, directed by Robert Zemeckis and written by Zemeckis and Bob Gale. What moviegoer of any age could resist a sprightly romantic comedy on the Oedipal dilemma? As Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox), a pleasant 1985-style teenager, exclaims to his shock and chagrin, "My mom has the hots for me!" This takes some explaining. Marty's pal, an aged, eccentric scientist (Christopher Lloyd), has fashioned a De Lorean car into a functioning time machine. Suddenly, Marty finds himself in 1955, in the bedroom of the 17-year-old girl...