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...confront starlight on the larger questions of morality and the universe. The most interesting dilemma posed and indeed and the only one carried through consistently, is the crisis of faith among the cathedral's staff in the face of terror and bereavement. At a party, someone brings up "a tidbit from seminary training. "a quotation from George Orwell...
...sound like audi tions for a road company of 7776. Arguments are nearly always flotsam-packed and comically eclectic, skittering from Burger King to Rousseau, from Bruce Springsteen to the Sudetenland. Says Gilbert: "You can't really prepare, so everything becomes important: something your mother once said, a tidbit from sociology class...
Then came the call from Universal pictures. A fact-flnding miseion had yielded the tidbit that the Oranges owned a '57 Chevy, and could the film company rent it for the movie version of the Broadway show "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas...
...California widow and mother of three. But during her pregnancy, Bhimani decided she wanted to keep the child. Noyes sued for custody. Then, just before the trial, he withdrew his suit, partly to avoid publicly divulging his wife's transsexuality-which came out, in court documents. That tidbit has since been publicized anyway, so Noyes, a truck driver who has invested more than $5,000 in his quest, may renew the custody fight...
...election of Ronald Reagan, a clandestine session was held near DuPont Circle in the nation's capital. At that meeting, the cream of the old radical circuit sat down to plan out the formation of an "anti-Reagan" movement, modeled on the anti-war movement of past decades. This tidbit comes in a column titled "Terrorism Today." For graphic interest, "Terrorism Today" is illustrated with a picture of "a hooded member of the IRA," though that organization is not discussed in the column nor anywhere else in the issue...