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There are seven suicides in the Bible, from Samson to Judas, and neither the Old Testament nor the New specifically forbids it, as does the Koran, which calls suicide "a much graver crime than homicide." But St. Augustine condemned it as "a detestable and damnable wickedness," perhaps to put a stop to a growing tendency of extremist Christians to seek instant sainthood via self-martyrdom. From the Middle Ages to the end of the 18th century in Europe, self-murder was stigmatized by the full force of church and state-a suicide's property was confiscated, his body...
CACTUS FLOWER is a sex comedy from France that asks whether a Don Juanish dentist (Barry Nelson) should ask his adoring assistant (Lauren Bacall) to be his accomplice in a plot against his mistress. Would Samson ask Delilah to trim his hair...
CACTUS FLOWER is a sex comedy from France that asks whether a don-juanish dentist (Barry Nelson) should ask his adoring assistant (Lauren Bacall) to be his accomplice in a plot against his mistress Would Samson ask Delilah to trim his hair...
...atmosphere, Christie's now expects that Peter Paul Rubens' The Judgment of Paris, which they first appraised as a $280 copy by Lankrink (TIME, Sept. 16), will top $225,000 when it goes on the block next month. Another newly discovered Rubens, an oil sketch for his Samson and Delilah, will join it for an estimated $140,000. Henry Ford II will take profits on Christie's block in December by selling off four works by Matisse, Signac, Vuillard and Picasso for upwards...
...probably the most calamitous shearing since Samson's, but Beatle John Lennon, 25, was brave about it. In a quiet little operation on Lüneburger Heide, West Germany, he suffered through the unique experience of a normal haircut to prepare for his role as a British Tommy in a film called How I Won the War. When the perspiring barber had finally chopped through the thatch, Beatle aides swept up the locks and sent them off to a German teen magazine for distribution to the faithful. "It's all right," said John...