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...Gulfport, Miss., specializes in high-pitched nasal prayer for whatever his listeners suggest, and he prides himself on his gift: "The angel appeared unto me in a dream and commissioned me to give myself to prayer.'' He also has a gift for extracting folding money from his slack-jawed listeners: "Friends, is it not right that I should ask you to help support our work? You don't owe us anything. You write me whether you've got any money or not to send. But if you have something that you can send...
...acid jazz score by Prince, the dance begins with a scene of total desolation: three men and a girl slump with wan, expressionless faces before Shahn's backdrop of a vast, bleak, windowed city. Uncoiling themselves, the dancers make sudden taut, tentative movements, then fall back in a slack-limbed pantomime of despair. To a suddenly quickened rhythm, a Negro dancer bounds onstage, is quickly surrounded by mocking, finger-snapping whites. For a time they applaud his acrobatics, then stare stonily as he wanders pathetically away. As a new stageful of dancers jig in a mechanistic imitation of gaiety...
...Visconti's scenes look honestly at the appalling depths of brother love: two of the brothers quarrel over a girl, and one of them rapes and eventually murders her, yet is forgiven. But the acting is pointlessly, if deliberately, melodramatic; the murderer needlessly apes a silent-film villain-slack jaw, rolling eyes and all. Whole episodes are unprofitably murky. A question at the core of the film -whether corrosive city is preferable to deadening land-is never convincingly asked, although Rocco is supposed to end with its answer. Worst is the endless mayhem. Visconti's camera...
...inside-the-park four-bagger off Yankee Stadium's centerfield wall. Teammate Roger Maris, whose 28 home runs have turned his right ear into a more tempting target than the strike zone, ran into a dry spell, but San Francisco's Willie Mays took up the slack, collected three homers in one game. Even the seventh-place Chicago Cubs got into the act, hitting 17 in six games. Batters poled 112 home runs in six days, boosted big league totals...
...penetration from 5.9% to 7.9%. In so doing, it cut into sales of the standard-sized Ford, which slipped from 15% to 13%-Mercury also slid, from 2.5% to 2.1%, partly because it looks too much like the Ford. But its little brother Comet more than made up the slack by spurting from 1% to 3% of the market...