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...been banned briefly (a judge lifted the censorship), and demonstrators have jostled and insulted ticket holders in line. The reason for the fuss is the film's plot, a contemporary version of the virgin birth. Mary is the outspoken, truculent daughter of a gas-station manager; Joseph is a taxi driver who at the news of her pregnancy mutters about how good her other lovers must have been; the Archangel Gabriel is a drunken roughneck; and Jesus turns out to be a turbulent toddler who exclaims, "I am the one who is," leading Joseph, behind the wheel of the family...
MARRIED. Martin Scorsese, 42, film director with a bleak, often obsessive vision (Taxi Driver, The King of Comedy); and Barbara DeFina, 38, film production worker whom he met in 1980 on the set of Raging Bull and who worked with him on his forthcoming film After Hours; he for the fourth time, she for the first; in New York City...
Despite the official U.S. neutrality, Blaize benefited from outside help. A variety of private Caribbean, West European and U.S. organizations, including the AFL-CIO and a number of conservative public-interest lobbies, funneled money into Grenada to heighten civic awareness and get out the vote. Local taxi drivers were paid as much as $130 on election day for carrying citizens to the polls. The assistance was nonpartisan, but the enlarged turnout probably helped Blaize to defeat the remnants of Gairy's Boss Tweed-style political machine...
...national, at Zurich International Airport as he was making a connection from Beirut to Rome. Officials found several explosive arming devices in his suitcase. Atat was also carrying 5 Ibs. of highly volatile plastic material in a cloth belt under his shirt. An accomplice escaped detection and took a taxi to Zurich's railway station, where police later found a suitcase containing another 5 Ibs. of explosives. The accomplice is thought to have made his way to Rome...
Each testing session lasted four and a half hours. The subjects were kept about two hours longer to ensure that they were well enough to ensure that they were well enough to go home and were then sent home by taxi...