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...that even in this high-powered age, the greatest story ever told still commands enormous audience appeal. That's undoubtedly true, but the phenomenal success of "E. T." has a broader significance as well: it marks the culmination of two filmmakers' long effort to glorify the mystical at the rude expense of the rational...
...attractive; the summer job that does not work out. For a few bewildering hours Daniel parades up and down a street dressed as a giant peanut, his view limited by a slit in an oversized bow tie. The papier-mache prison foreshadows future confinements, but it is also a rude distortion of a young body striving to know itself. At one point the young man stands naked before a mirror and attempts to sketch his reflection. But "he found it very difficult to draw himself without drawing in the paper and pencil too." The result is a picture...
Just months ago, he was comfortably established as a theology professor at one of his country's leading universities. Now, after a substantial salary cut, he has become the pastor of a black-slum church, where worshipers sit on rude benches rather than in polished pews. Many clergy have made such sacrifices to spread the Gospel. But in the tense racial politics of South Africa, the decision of the Rev. Nico J. Smith, 53, is a dramatic moral challenge to the longstanding church support for apartheid...
Donaldson gets a lot of mail saying, "You're rude, you're crude, " and feared an avalanche of letters from the offended churchly. So, he concedes, he got across his own unsympathetic feelings by attributing them to unnamed critics...
Although Walsh says rent board members are "extremely rude" to landlords and tenants, he contends that the major problem with the rent board is the members "political leanings. "Cohn" wants to make sure the CCA stays in effective control of the rent board "in order to perpetuate things." Walsh says, adding that neither the landlord nor tenant representatives are typical of the groups they serve. According to Walsh Cohn does not under stand the average landlord. He's a dreamer in a world where reality" outweighs any respect for theory. And Walsh says that if you tell me Joel Johnson...