Word: sabbaths
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Connor's novella, using much of her original dialogue, which is both realistically harsh and softly poetic. And all of the book's strange characters are faithfully recreated: Asa Hawks, the failed preacher disguised as a blind man who begs and steals in the name of Jesus; Sabbath Hawks, his sluttish daughter who falls for Haze; Enoch Emery, the idiot teenage zookeeper who finds a bizarre solution to Haze's search for a new Jesus; Hoover Shoats, the mercenary street preacher who seizes on Haze's Church Without Christ as an exciting new way to fill his coffers; and Leora...
...Wright's Sabbath Hawks moves like a tetched possum trying to seduce a wolfhound. Wright was the dippy lesbian in Girlfriends and she gives Sabbath a similar flightiness, the nervous soul of a girl who revels in sex and sin. Harry Dean Stanton is properly menacing as the conniving Asa Hawks who wants to torture Haze in a fraudulent game of redemption. Daniel Shor fusses and leaps about hilariously in an ape suit as the deranged Enoch Emery, whose new Jesus is a shrunken South American mummy stolen indiscreetly from the city MVSEVM. And Ned Beatty, the only "name...
That slogan will start bombarding Americans this week from sea to shining sea as the great decennial head count begins. Ministers, priests and rabbis will be preaching it from their pulpits on "Census Sabbath" and "Census Sunday." Put to music, the slogan will blare from radios in Spanish, Cantonese, Russian, Greek, Vietnamese and 26 other languages in addition to English. On TV, the census will be plugged by Kirk Douglas, José Ferrer, Elvin Hayes, Roger Staubach, Mickey Mouse and a cast of thousands. Just in case someone might manage to remain blissfully ignorant of the effort to get every...
...pack strong opinions. The book is organized by artist. Styles are surveyed, ratings apportioned (from "Worthless" to "Indispensable"), careers evaluated and, in a some cases, trashed. There may not be a great many surprises here. The good guys (Springsteen, Dylan, the Who) win; the bad guys (from Black Sabbath and the Tubes to Mac Davis and Kenny Rogers) are pumped full of holes. The contributors may be quick to shoot from the hip, but they score a fair share of bull's-eyes. "Limpid 'adult bubblegum' rockers" seems about right for Crosby, Stills and Nash, while Marsh...