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...Rex." All the troubles of America would be blamed on him, pinned to his purple cloak. But there they would disappear in the glare of the royal, Reagan glow. A Teflon King makes a great scapegoat...
...Angeles Clinical Psychologist Rex Beaber offered a psychological- political analysis: The primitive unconscious of man is inherently vengeful, and civilization dawns when citizens, by social contract, yield the administering of vengeance and justice to the state. That contract has broken down in America, he believes. "People are saying, 'As an individual citizen, I wish to revoke my contract because you didn't do what I expected...
Another arrested squatter was Lutheran Pastor William Rex, a D.M.S. activist who faces additional troubles. Pittsburgh police accuse him of conspiring to plan a protest at Shadyside Presbyterian Church, where suspected D.M.S. members hurled balloons filled with dye and skunk spray at participants in a family Christmas pageant. In addition, members of Rex's parishes in Monroeville and Trafford, Pa., have petitioned Bishop May to investigate the parson's conduct...
...California Girl, apotheosis of the workout ethic. Kara must save the world from the malefic Selena (Faye Dunaway), high priestess of Endor and part-time palmist. In this task, Supergirl is aided by her Krypton father Zaltar (Peter OToole), who, as in every other Freudian fable from Oedipus Rex to Star Wars, must die before his offspring can reach maturity, self-knowledge and power...
...possible," he says, and "I don't pay much attention to television." So no one was more surprised than Morris at the furor that ensued in March 1982 after British Actress Vanessa Redgrave was hired to narrate the B.S.O.'s planned production of the opera-oratorio Oedipus Rex. Redgrave, as anyone who does read the newspapers should know, is a Trotskyite and ardent supporter of the Palestine Liberation Organization, and her selection immediately inspired an outcry. Faced with protests from musicians, threats of violent disruption, and possible withdrawal of funds by Jewish orchestra patrons, Morris canceled Oedipus, casting...