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...pink dance hall. "This used to be a great, far-out place, lots of parties and no hassle," said Rabbit, one of the final dozen hippies who last week evacuated their grimy quonset hut on the edge of town. He added: "I don't see how the ole reverend is goin' to make...
...reverend is not sure either. He eschews government aid, and is begging money from every friend made in 22 years of preaching, for he believes that "some way God will provide." The parishioners, who set up a three-member town board, have the skills to rebuild the place, he explains. A store and restaurant will raise capital. The refurbished Country Cafe is already open, complete with no-smoking signs, five paintings of Jesus, and delicious homemade pies. Martha Morris, 27, cleaning up heaps of reeking garbage at her new home, knows that her husband has no job and unemployment...
...exercises in exotic fantasy. The action is centered in Bill Cracker's gin mill. Bill (Christopher Lloyd) is very tough but no match for the Lady in Gray, otherwise known as "the Fly" (Grayson Hall). She masterminds a gang of bank-robbing thugs with monikers like "the Reverend" (John A. Coe), "the Professor" (Robert Weil) and "Mammy" (Benjamin Rayson). They are all kept in line by Dr. Nakamura (Tony Azito), a Fu Manchu look-alike who speaks only in sibilants. Enter a Salvation Army lassie, "Hallelujah Lil" (Meryl Streep), who falls for Bill. After that, romance vies with comic...
...Reverend Ralph, an Episcopal minister since 1958, concedes that this decidedly non-sacerdotal language is accurately quoted, but insists the passion of the moment justified his outburst. His executive assistant recalls indignantly several insulting remarks she says McLaughlin and Danehy made about Ralph in open meetings, remarks never recorded in the minutes...
...Prime Minister Ian Smith's white-minority government and leaders of the black nationalist movement became deadlocked last month, and no one seems sure of the direction events are going to take. Smith's feelers toward moderate blacks may result in a black-white coalition if Bishop Muzorewa or Reverend Sithole accept the offers; but none of the three have control over the Zimbabwean freedom fighters, whose leaders have said repeatedly they will not accept a transition government in which the whites remain in control of the country's armed forces. And Smith continues to demand that transition phase, which...