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...Tempest's most believable performance as a teenager struggling to establish her own identity stuck on a rock in the middle of the Mediterranean in an intentional parallel to Phillip's own search. When she tells an admiring Sam Robards. "I'm not exactly beautiful, besides. I'm a virgin," it is pure adolescent poetry...
...billion from the Federal Government in order to pay basic benefits to their jobless workers. For all of 1981, nine states borrowed only $1.6 billion. These loans, coupled with unpaid balances incurred during earlier downturns, have pushed the total indebtedness for 16 states, plus Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands and the District of Columbia, to $7.8 billion. That figure is expected to grow to $9.5 billion by year's end, and more states are likely to join the list of loan seekers before the recovery gets under way. Moreover, strict new federal rules governing these debts threaten to keep...
Above the city, on a high hill, stands a ten-story | statue of the Virgin holding the baby Jesus. A metal halo is riveted over the Virgin's head. One can enter the monument at the base and climb up inside it. Dan hesitates at the top because the protective wall has been shot away. This was a recent P.L.O. position. An antiaircraft gun was set up there. Below the Virgin, the Israeli army mills. "I hate war," says Dan, out of the blue...
Says Industrialist Carlos Lopez Espinosa: "It was the miracle of the Virgin of Guadalupe. People were suddenly talking about how we would have to learn to spend all that money...
...liberal in John Paul's Vatican, "have made our job immensely more difficult than it should have been." The power of speaking infallibly has made even the Popes wary, and it has been used explicitly only once since Vatican I, when Pius XII decreed in 1950 that the Virgin Mary, when she had finished her life on earth, was transported bodily into heaven. This proclamation created yet another difficulty for non-Catholic Christians. Despite the Second Vatican Council's emphasis on the "collegiality" of bishops in sharing authority with the Pope, it left papal powers substantially intact...