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Although my home has few movie mementos, the office walls are covered with posters of the movies I made. Today I find myself looking at a big poster of me with teeth bared, scowling at my friend TONY QUINN in Lust for Life. I loved Tony. In the early years, we spent much time together. And even when he moved to Italy, we always kept in touch. I was happy for him when he received the Oscar for his portrayal of Gauguin. He deserved it; he was a marvelous actor! Tony was also an extraordinary artist and sculptor. The last...
None of us who oppose the death penalty want McVeigh as our poster boy. But capital punishment is helping him get what he most desires: public attention. If we had simply locked him up and thrown away the key, he wouldn't be back on the cover of TIME. And feeding him prison food for the rest of his life could hardly be more costly than paying for his lawyers to go through still more thousands of pages of documents. CARRIE NIELSEN Stanford, Calif...
...Orange, Calif., woman. "Your cover should have shown his victims' families, with the headline AGONY PROLONGED!" There were other suggestions for the cover, including photos of the 168 bombing victims, the FBI documents or even a blank page. An Arizona man showed special creativity: "Instead of glorifying the poster boy for all the wackos of the world, a better cover would have shown FBI Director Louis Freeh with egg on his face...
...pressing too hard” at the beginning of his tenure. By 1994, he had run down his own health to the point that he had to take three months off. His then-provost, Al Carnesale, took over as acting president, and Rudenstine became the national poster boy for exhaustion, even making the cover of Newsweek...
...minutes after 3 o'clock on a spring afternoon, a color poster of a crucified Jesus hangs in front of the art classroom in a public school in Pennsylvania. For the next hour, three adults will guide 21 children between the ages of 4 and 12 through songs they know by heart (Good News, Jesus Died for Me!) and a Bible lesson ("Heaven's a perfect place. And Jesus wants you to live there!"). It sounds and feels like Sunday school, but it's Wednesday. This is the meeting of Pleasant Gap Elementary's Good News Club, a weekly event...