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Divine Disobedience is divided into three long sections. The first, and sketchiest, is an account of the communal lifestyle of East Harlem's Emmaus House, a prototype for countless so-called "underground churches." When Francine began her project, Emmaus House was a hotbed of zealous ecumaniacs bent on building a new kind of parish with home rule and spontaneous liturgies. The community has become considerably more secular since then, and is evolving into a center for nonviolence...
...know that the linear pursuit of ego-goals is a closed circle wherein getting there is none of the fun. Except for the sketchiest of suggestions that require a dedicated between-the-lines reading. DeRopp helps us but little in acting on that knowledge. He verbalizes many of our sickest foibles and follows with a rejoinder like "On the other hand, the student of Creative Psychology (capital C. capital P) approaches the problem from a much healthier premise." After a while, the reader half expects to come across an application black to fill out and send away for your free...
Director Yates knows how to shape even the sketchiest scenario, and if John and Mary is no deeper than an eggshell, it is every bit as functionally designed. Mia Farrow adds an otherworldliness to her character by reciting her lines as if they were cabala. Hoffman, one of the shrewdest young actors in the business, manages to be at once predator and victim. But when the film tries to make the audience care for the characters, it proves bankrupt. For beneath the Manhattan chatter and the glossy confrontations, John and Mary is as empty as a singles bar on Monday...
...except the participants and some discreet Johnson cronies--knows exactly what goes on at these affairs, since the academics and writers involved refuse to report even the sketchiest impressions of the briefings they receive...
After years of patient probing, oceanographers still have only the sketchiest notions about the shape of the drowned, undersea landscape that makes up 70% of the earth's crust. They know even less about undersea "weather"-the currents, eddies and swift temperature changes that sweep across the ocean bottom like winds and storms on land. Not until Columbia University's Hudson Laboratories announced the first direct measurements of deep waves, could oceanographers be sure that the great, lazy surges actually exist...