Word: strangers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...time government officials had reluctantly acknowledged Scott's report, he was already busy trying to penetrate the secrecy that enshrouds Franco. He later joined Photographer Eddie Adams for an exclusive photo session with the Generalissimo's hand-picked successor, Prince Juan Carlos. The Prince is no stranger to Scott, who, when he began his first tour in Spain in 1966, found that even then one of the major issues was the problem of succession...
Lurie has set herself the task of focusing your curiosity on a stranger. Since the subject lacks initial interest, the style is crucial. Sometimes Lurie fails to realize that the punch line of a memory is easier to deal with if you were there, and her reflections are smothered by commonplace observations and a chummy attitude toward Lang. She doesn't come through with the kind of technique that gets around your indifference to, say, Gorey's insomnia, often enough: "I went upstairs. Ted had been up for hours he said. 'I don't really like sleeping lately,' he apologized...
There's no denying the fact, however, that Wixted is the main man for Penn, and that without him, the Quakers' chances of winning today are quite slim. Stranger things have happened, though Last night, for example, there was this guy masquerading as Dave Schulz, the Philadelphia Flyers' bad boy, who kept hitting everyone over the head with a real hockey stick while yelling "April Fools...
...only real laugh in the entire first act comes from an old comic saw--a mother walking in on a stranger in bed with her daughter--which the weary audience, finally seizing upon something it can recognize, greets with a feeling very much akin to relief...
...American Christians still see God as "the Giver of all goodness," through his gift of grace in Jesus Christ. But Jesus also made an example of the Good Samaritan because of his loving moral conduct. And in a parable, Jesus told followers to find him in the hungry, the stranger, the naked, the sick, the imprisoned-in situations where moral response is called...