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Labor Pains. English Actor Robert Powell handles the impossible role of Jesus with considerable skill. The script enables him to present a complex personality who chats amiably with the rabbis on whether "the Sabbath is made for man," but who also swings a heavy club to smash the money-changers' booths in the Temple. Olivia Hussey, who at age 15 played Juliet for Zeffirelli, is a winsomely girlish Virgin Mary who suffers real labor pains and is the object of respect, though not veneration, during Jesus' lifetime...
...federal recommendations that ballooners use hard hats. Instead, he wore his old Pabst Blue Ribbon cap, which matched the case of refreshments he took along. Back on earth, Billy was somewhat deflated by Georgia officials: they issued him a warning against selling beer at his gas station on the Sabbath...
...bars, especially those that feature oversize screens, Super Sunday is boom time. In a restaurant/discotheque hard by the u.C.L.A. campus, students have their choice of three seven-foot screens on three separate floors. In no-longer-teetotaling-on-the-Sabbath Atlanta, bar owners plan to discount drinks, hoping to lure patrons away from their home TV sets...
...arrival of the first three of 25 American F-15 Eagle fighters that Israel has on order (U.S. officials later indicated that the day and timing had been set by Rabin). The arrangements outraged leaders of Israel's religious parties, since the ceremony ran so close to the Sabbath sundown that it violated the spirit of the approaching holy day. Only 20% of Israeli Jews are strictly observant, but the religious parties that represent them are a potent factor in the nation's politics. The largest of the groups, the National Religious Party, has been included in almost...
...through fellow missionaries who had hitched a ride with him. "He told his secretary, 'No calls and no visitors for an hour,' and we sat down in his office and drank Cokes," Davis relates. 'He turned out to be Jewish, and he invited us to his home for the Sabbath, provided we didn't talk about our religion...