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...before you cancel the beach-house rental and pack the pup tent, you should know that Slab City--which got its name from the concrete remnants of a World War II training ground used by General Patton--isn't exactly Palm Springs minus ex-Presidents and bad pants...
LONDON: What's in a name? If the name is Rolls-Royce, $66 million -- and that's cheap. Like two Dobermans at a single slab of steak, German automakers BMW and Volkswagen AG have completed the tearing apart of the revered luxury car line: Volkswagen gets Bentley, and BMW gets Rolls-Royce -- or at least the name Rolls-Royce. Under the deal (finalized after Volkswagen tried and failed to acquire the name itself), BMW will build its own factory by 2002 to produce the cars. Volkswagen will get to use the Rolls name for free until then, after which...
Director Gale Edwards, an Australian who staged a first-rate London revival of Jesus Christ Superstar in 1996, has put together a smooth, unshowy production, which combines functionality (a slab of concrete rises and lowers to create a two-tiered set) and lovely images (two teenagers riding a motorcycle in the mist against a deep-blue, storybook night sky). If the musical fails to capture the film's gentle ironies, it adds some intriguing sexual tension between the stranger (a charismatic Marcus Lovett) and the chief child (Lottie Mayor, several years older than Hayley Mills in the film...
...past a sign that says MIDDLEBURY, INDIANA, HOME OF THE 1995 JUNIOR MISS. We turn left on Route 120, headed for the open road under a canopy of oaks. The whole slab is ours, Seattle to Savannah. All its parks, all its hills and valleys, all its roadside hash houses. Who says we ever have to turn back...
...whetted my interest and rocked my agnosticism." He eventually converted to Catholicism and penned what is probably the most stirring hypothetical description ever of the shroud's possible origin. "In the darkness of the Jerusalem tomb the dead body of Jesus lay, unwashed, covered in blood, on a stone slab," he wrote in his 1978 best seller The Shroud of Turin. "Suddenly there is a burst of mysterious power from it. In that instant the blood dematerializes, dissolved perhaps by the flash, while its image and that of the body becomes indelibly fused onto the cloth, preserving for posterity...