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ASSASSINATION TANGO. Robert Duvall’s career as a film actor reads like a smorgasbord of human types; he’s played a surf-crazy colonel in Apocalypse Now, a conformist tightass in MASH, a fire-spitting preacher in The Apostle and everybody in between. He lets his feet do some of the talking as he stars in Assassination Tango, a dance-tinged character study armed with a title that explains its plot with TV Guide-caliber brevity (Duvall’s an assassin, and he tangos!). Duvall’s aging hitman, his hair yanked back...
...just such an affable preacher that Lois Smart says she met in downtown Salt Lake in November 2001. He introduced himself as Emmanuel and asked her for money. She gave him $5 and offered him a day's work repairing the roof of her house and raking leaves. This didn't seem unusual to her husband Ed, a real estate broker who often helped people with temporary work. He labored in tandem with "Emmanuel" on a roof project and described the man as genial and soft-spoken. After four hours the Smarts told "Emmanuel" he was welcome to come back...
...guest preacher, visiting from a Swedenborgian church in Maine, will take over on the main sermon, she tells the parishioners, so that she can spend an extra hour organizing the chapel’s fundraising efforts...
...familiar figures such as Phillis Wheatley, Olaudah Equiano, and Jupiter Hammon. Others are more surprising: Francis Williams, a free black from Jamaica who studied at Cambridge University in the early 1700s; George White, a former slave from Virginia who only learned to read at age 42 yet became a preacher and published author; and the anonymous "Sable Bard" of 1797 who tells his story in verse, from enslavement as a child in Africa, transport to America, and service in the Revolutionary War, to manumission and the struggle to survive as a freeman. Most mysterious of all is "Itaniko," the pseudonymous...
...abolitionist John Rankin was that recognizable type, a scalding Old Testament moralist dropped into 19th century America, a place that was already a boiling pot. He was also a Presbyterian preacher, but not the type to turn the other cheek. In 1841, after a pro-slavery raiding party attempted to burn his house, he put forward a summation of his principles: "It is as much a duty to shoot the midnight assassin in his attacks as it is to pray...