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...they too involve a commitment that will eventually crumble. "At our limits a God appears, or something that serves his turn," says Cioran, who is at once an unbeliever and a profoundly religious man. "I fall back on God, if only out of a desire to trample my doubts underfoot." Yet Cioran rejects faith as just another self-deception. "I write to rid myself of my obsessions, of my anguish," he says. "But I believe in nothing...
...crumbling 18th century villa in the dusky hills near Padua, Italy, where Vanessa Redgrave, 31, showed up last month to film her new ghost-chiller A Quiet Place in the Country, was far from quiet. In fact, there seemed to be more shades underfoot than on the windows, which mysteriously slammed shut while chairs rattled unaided across floors, drawers floated out of place, and cameras smashed inexplicably. Director Elio Petri swore he bumped into-or through-a long-deceased ancestor of the villa's owner on the staircase one night. All those unnerving incidents soon had the stagehands muttering...
...under the direct rule of the Archbishop of Canterbury. Morton taunts Endecott with this promise of lost authority, and suddenly the Governor becomes as steely as his armor. Delivering a flaming polemic against the King, he sunders his own flagstaff and tromps the red-crossed flag of England underfoot. It is the most powerful moment of the evening and brings to vivid life D. H. Lawrence's comment that Amer ica was born in "black revulsion." Black with wrath, Endecott orders Merry Mount burned to the ground and the Indians massacred. The historical moment is a century...
...butte above New Mexico's Leandro Canyon last week, chilled ob servers fell silent as a voice on the public-address system reached the end of the countdown. For a tense moment, nothing happened. Then the earth jolted underfoot and a dull, distant boom was heard, followed by a second, more gentle, rolling shock. Someone shouted: "We did it! We did it!" Hand shakes were exchanged all around. The U.S. had successfully set off the first nuclear explosion sponsored jointly by the Government and industry...
...mainstay of his social group, and so feels excluded and rejected. In some cases he develops a state of depression marked by listlessness, poor appetite, and an increasing number of real but unnecessary ailments that drive him to the doctor. Wives, too, can become upset by having a man underfoot all day. Dr. Wright quoted one: "I married George for life, but not for lunch." This new discord, he warned, can lead to the breakup of a long marriage...