Word: stoning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Long Island, as well as a 53-acre estate in New York's Westchester County. Life hasn't changed that much, he insists: "I still watch a lot of TV and play with the dogs." Frampton," whose melodic soft-rock Frampton Comes Alive! won him Rolling Stone's 1976 "Artist of the Year" award, has a newly released album I'm in You and will embark next week on a four-month tour. He is also starring in a movie version of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, based on the Beatles' album...
...Contributor John Skow, a longtime practitioner of mens sana in corpore sano. A former staff writer, Skow left New York City 15 years ago for the salubrious airs of the country. On his 45-acre New Hampshire farm, he chops the wood that heats his house and repairs stone fences. A runner, Skow also enjoys tennis, canoeing, skiing and hiking. In 1971 he climbed the 24,500-ft. Mt. Noshaq in Afghanistan...
...their knees to the altar, and left 13 dozen red roses as they departed. By last week the number of visitors had passed 60,000 (including repeaters), even though news accounts of the "miracle" cloth have been spotty. On weekends the line waiting to get into the modest blue stone church stretches a block or more. Five priests are on duty to anoint people in search of healing, and every 30 minutes lay readers pray for thousands who make written requests. Four pilgrims claim to have been cured of serious maladies...
...tale of Sisyphus, the Laborer, demonstrated the futility of monotonous work. Sisyphus, who is commanded by an unknown power to roll a stone up a hill, only to have it roll down over him again and again, was juxtraposed with modern assembly line workers, whose work became almost robot-like and equally crushing under the will of an equally demanding and omnipotent force...
Fantasy was used to achieve poignancy in "The Statue". A statue in a park, longing to become part of the life around her, came to life, only to realize sadly that everyone in the tableau had turned to stone. She then watched from her pedestal as a human being was rejected just as coldly by his re-animated fellows. The tragedy ended in an optimistic climax, when the forlorn man and the lonely statue turned to each other...