Word: stonings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...floor of the bay, a flat, sandy-brown miniature moonscape unrolling beneath the 3-in.-thick, 16-in.-in-diameter window in the bow. Cynically one expects to find old shoes and bottles. But there is nothing except large-grained sand and mud, now and then a stick or stone, crisscrossed by all sorts of hermit and spider crabs that slink out of sight. Only the bigger green crabs show fight. One stands on its hind legs and waves its pincers in the air as the sub passes, the very picture of futile rage. In warmer seas and clearer waters...
Screenplay by Judith Rascoe and Robert Stone...
...Stone tools, cave paintings and burial sites have provided glimpses of our immediate ancestors. But how did habilis live? The fossil record, notes Leakey, provides a skeleton key. But the lifestyles of primates, and of such modern-day primitives as the Kung and the Eskimos, offer more elaborate clues. For one thing they suggest that the existence of earlier man was not, as previously supposed, nasty, brutish and short. Gatherer-hunters, says Leakey, led a shrewd, uncompetitive life and spent little time on the hunt. What truly separated them from their relatives the chimps and baboons, however, was not their...
...tend to blend together as characters. David Eddy as Harcourt has one very funny sequence when disguised as a lisping cleric. Thomas Champion as Pinchwife starts a little slowly, but by the second act he warms to his role and becomes genuinely funny. Linda Cameron as Alithea and Lucy Stone McNeece suavely handle their parts, although Cameron could have injected a little more life into the admittedly flat part of Alithea. Even the various servants, played by Ralph Zito, Michael Miller and Andy Sellon are funny, particularly in the drinking scene...
...differences stem from the foundation stone of the faith, those unique Mormon scriptures, which are the subject of deep but carefully concealed doubts among some church intellectuals at Brigham Young University and at Mormon "institutes" on secular campuses. Smith said he dug up golden tablets at Hill Cumorah near Palmyra in 1827 and dictated their contents to a scribe before they were taken up into heaven. The result was the Book of Mormon, an account of two migrations of ancient Jews to the Americas, and of a ministry by Jesus in the New World. These Jews built elaborate civilizations before...