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Delayed Delivery. Almost from the start, Mrs. Stanek knew she was super pregnant. By the twelfth week her doctors told her she was carrying more than two fetuses. By the 24th week they announced there would be at least four and ordered her to bed. By the time she was admitted to Denver's General Rose Memorial Hospital, X rays had confirmed that she was carrying sextuplets...
Some gangs, like the Twelfth and Wallace corner and the Twelfth and Poplar, are perpetual enemies simply because they are immediate neighbors. Other gangs "pull with" each other, living in peace side by side and making common cause against more distant gangs. North Philadelphia's Valley gang is in fact a giant entente of corners boasting nearly 1,000 members...
...typewriter when I heard explosions," Lindley cabled. "Since they began at 9 a.m. and followed a regular pattern, I thought they were a result of more blasting for Santiago's new subway system. But then I heard the unmistakable rattle of machine-gun fire. From the twelfth-floor window of my hotel room (which directly overlooks Moneda Palace), I saw a tank parked across Constitution Square. It had crawled up to within a few feet of the palace and trained its cannon on the steel door. Then a more lightly armored weapons carrier joined it. Wearing army uniforms...
...this person or that a hero or heroine. I see none at all. In fact, nobody in the roster strikes me as an admirable character. In addition, the work suffers from the fact that the quality of its language drops off markedly in the second half. Still, just as Twelfth Night was far superior to As You Like It, which it followed, so Measure for Measure was a vast improvement over All's Well (from which Shakespeare took over the device of substituting a bedmate in the dark). And one can only respect a director and cast who tackle...
...rebuilding of the ruined church of San Damiano, and his trip to Rome to seek advice from Pope Innocent III. Given this limited time-span and the painstaking efforts Zeffirelli makes to focus on the reasons for Francis's conduct, he explains astonishingly little of what was happening in twelfth-century Italy, both according to historical fact and to his own fiction. The war could be any war. A vehicle for top-heavy symbolism, it serves the purpose of contrasting Francis's world-weary pacifism with his merchant father's greedy support of warfare. Zeffirelli uses the presence of militarism...