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...first installment of the New Media Bible, as it is called, consists of ten 20-minute segments covering Genesis 1-22 (from the Creation to Abraham's sacrifice of Isaac) and Luke 1-2 (the Annunciation, the Nativity and Jesus' youth). They were filmed in the sere landscape of the Holy Land and neighboring areas, using largely unknown actors. One exception: Topol, the Israeli star of Hollywood's Fiddler on the Roof, who portrays Abraham...
...drought extends back almost a year, right through a mild winter with little snow and a dry spring. Now the subsoil is starved for moisture. South Dakota's grasslands, for example, never had a chance to turn green; they are sere and yellow. Crops planted in the spring-oats, barley, durum, hard red wheat and even some corn-have been stunted by the scorching sun. Under normal conditions, they would be knee-high by this time. In many cases, they have, in fact, grown barely six inches tall...
...joint service for five of the students who were Mormons. A second joint service was held for Tom Brooks, 17, and his steady girl friend Lori Killingsworth, 18. But most of the rites were conducted individually, followed by burial among the withered flowers that were scattered about the sere 20-acre graveyard four miles outside town. On all sides lie ripening rice fields, surrounded in turn by the orchards that make this the Peach Bowl of America. In the distance rises 2,117-foot Sutter Buttes, which passes for a mountain range in this sunbaked, mosquito-plagued tableland some...
...graduates, a free compulsory education program that virtually eliminated illiteracy, a comprehensive rural electrification program and a G.N.P. that grew from $11.6 billion in 1948 to $165.2 billion last year. At the same time, Christian Democratic governments presided over an epic migration of some 11 million Italians from the sere poverty of the rural south and east to new jobs and new lives in the industrial north and west...
Across the stony, sere landscape, the marchers trudged last week-40,000 strong. They were young and old, parents with infants, grandparents with dogs and cats, lovers holding hands. They carried sleeping bags, musical instruments, rifles, pistols and submachine guns. As black clouds stacked up over the Samarian foothills, a chill wind whipped through the marchers' ranks; many of the men had to secure their yarmulkes (skullcaps) with bobby pins. Still, they were in a festive mood, strumming guitars and singing patriotic songs around their campfires. From all over Israel, they had descended upon the ancient city of Jericho...