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...KNACK. The off-Broadway comedy hit about a virgin from out of town and three sex-obsessed young men is turned by Director Richard Lester into an energetic field day won by Rita Tushingham...
...peak of ecstasy in the Kingdom of Peace came in 1949, when the evangelist made public his marriage to Edna Rose Ritchings, the comely 21-year-old daughter of a white Vancouver florist, his "Spotless Virgin Bride." The original Mother Divine, a Negro, had died six years earlier; her spirit, Father Divine explained, had passed into Rose's shapely form...
...ever-growing building industry must have lumber; conservationists cherish forests. Here also the outcome is a compromise-the Government allows selective lumbering in the national forests, the lumber companies replant trees. But in cases of truly virgin forest and the privately owned California redwood tracts, the savers and the cutters are at irreconcilable loggerheads. The Sierra Club and other conservationists insist, with reason, that there is no way to replant a 2,000-year-old redwood or a forest never before touched by human industry...
...most dramatic question before the bishops was whether to take up a proposal by 13 Arizona clergymen that Pike be tried for heresy. They charged that he has denied such tenets of the faith as the virgin birth and the triune nature of God. Although Pike has plenty of critics among the hierarchy, they boggled at the thought of anything so drastic and medieval as a heresy trial. Nonetheless, the bishops' theological committee initially drafted a sharp reprimand that cleared Pike of heresy but deplored his habit of expressing controversial doctrinal views in public. When Pike threatened to make...
...KNACK. Wide-eyed Virgin Rita Tushingham fends off three kooky bachelors, millions of sight gags and reels of New Cinemisms in Richard Lester's clever look at young Londoners...