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Tuesday, February 18 THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY SPECIAL (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). An expedition by Land Rover and on foot explores "Australia - the Timeless Land" showing the contrasts between the modern coastal cities and the primitive Outback, and peering into the future of the continent that may be the last frontier...
...stealing the whole show with his fervent affirmation, and confirmation of the values we hold so dear in rock and roll: dynamism out of steely simplicity. Doing songs that are nearly fifteen years old, Chuck Berry, like Elvis, nearly proves that supreme rock 'n' roll is, in fact, as timeless as it so often seems when you're listening and quivering to it. "We are going to do a number that everybody (high-pitched scream) knows. An old (English accent) one." He signals and the band goes into "Maybelline" slow and easy. The shuffling guitar riffs that he bequeathed...
Vulgar Objects. Like Maritain, the Pope firmly believes that the tradition of scholastic philosophy is a timeless mode of expressing the truths of the Christian faith. His encyclical on the Eucharist contended that the late-medieval word transubstantiation was the only way of expressing the mystery of the consecration, when the bread and wine at Mass become Christ's body and blood. His new creed, promulgated last July, was a disappointingly unimaginative restatement of doctrinal orthodoxy that differed only in minor details from the language of the Council of Trent. His argument against contraception in Humanae Vitae rested...
...THIS TIMELESS MOMENT: A PERSONAL VIEW OF ALDOUS HUXLEY by Laura Ar-chera Huxley. 330 pages. Farrar, Straus & Giroux...
...lightened with lean, clean performances and shot with Godard's customary breakneck style. Les Carabiniers does indeed rest upon a worn metaphor: in a war, winner takes nothing. If the old saw works this time, it is because Godard has placed it in the context of something as timeless as a folk tale...