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...Carlos last week to decide whether Johnson should be ordained. How did he regard his sexuality? Johnson was asked. "I regard all sexuality as a gift from God and a good gift," he replied. Might he have a contaminating effect on church youth? "There is a mythology that homosexuals prey on children," said Johnson, "when 98 percent of all pedophiles are heterosexuals." Could he be a good minister without a wife? "I don't really feel I need a wife," Johnson said. "I hope some day to share a deep love relationship with another...
...Epic in Twilight" effectively resolves these inner conflicts, strongly and lyrically through the explicitness of dance movement. Reminiscent of surreal landscapes--curvy, wriggling plants and fairy-tale, almost anthrophomorphic animals of prey--the scenes are washed over by pastel lights and costumes running together like dew dripping from blades of grass. The dancers paint a moving tableau, a soft flowing watercolor with occasional sharp lines that cut at the pastel mist recalling the surprise surreal of Rene Magrette's imagery, the playfulness of Paul Klee's animal compositions, and an accent of slithery, lurking evil. The opening scene contrasts...
...poachers can sell their prey for about $6 per foot, but they do not get them without a struggle. Poaching must be done at night-partly to avoid agents and partly to catch the slumbering alligators. The poacher blinds the animal with a spotlight, then approaches in his boat and fires a "brain shot" between the eyes with a .22-cal. rifle. A good poacher gets a rolled skin into his boat in 15 minutes. "They can get a 'gator out of his jacket real fast," says Federal Agent Andrew Pursley...
...existence, a Beckettesque journey from nothingness to oblivion. Gloria Foster makes a triumph of this taxing role through her unremittingly somber presence and power. The next two playlets, Players inn and Cop and Blow, are set in a bar, the gaudy aquarium of tropically colorful sharks who prey mercilessly on the vulnerable fish of the ghetto...
Until the North Vietnamese unleashed their attack across the DMZ, U.S. Air Force and Navy pilots in the war rarely saw their prey. Elusive guerrillas and camouflaged trucks on jungle trails seldom afforded high-flying supersonic pilots a visible target. Last week, whenever the cloud cover lifted, the flyers could sight the enemy on the ground. "You had the feeling," said Waddel, "that you were really doing something significant...