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...murderers await Heron at every turn of the road. Each encounter teaches Heron something new. It is when Heron meets Claudia (Anjelica Huston), the doe-eyed daughter of a benign monarch, that he begins to grow to manhood with a fearful swiftness. He protects Claudia when the peasants sack her father's domain. The peasants are exceeding wroth. Heron and Claudia flee. But no man will give them refuge. They have only the shelter of their hearts. Perhaps it is the wind in the trees, but it surely sounds as if Heron, much in despair, cries: "Oh, Claudia...
...Alice's Restaurant, Arlo Guthrie tells the tale of how he once took a sack of garbage to the dump in Stockbridge, Mass., was arrested for littering, and wound up, much to his joy, rejected by the draft-because he had a police record. Ever since, Arlo has had an abiding belief in the benign power of fate. When he was married last week, the day had been carefully selected in advance by a medium in New York...
captured in a great sack...
...epic has so thoroughly captured the imagination of men through the ages as blind Homer's tale of the siege and sack of Troy. Yet many classical scholars and archaeologists have long suspected that the Iliad and the Odyssey are far more laudable as poetry than as history. The latest skepticism about the poet's recounting of the Trojan War comes from a distinguished German classicist, Dr. Helmut Berve, who has spent most of his life studying ancient Greece. Disturbed by what he calls a "readiness to believe in the historical core behind all myths, especially...
SIMILARLY, when the Sack Theatres ran To Sir, With Love--"at the time, we had no idea what kind of movie it was," Opin said--BAD ran a special ad in one issue with a coupon offering a 50 cent discount on Mondays through Thursday. "The coupon kept coming in for 15 weeks, although the ad only appeared once," Opin said...