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Even so, the temblor was a vivid reminder of the terrible forces locked inside the earth. Much of the destruction came from fires, ignited by short-circuited wires and fueled by broken gas mains. Electric power was cut, the water supply was contaminated. For hours, Coalinga's people were largely isolated from the world because of severed telephone lines...
...meaning of this moment is not about weapons systems, megatonnage or complicated treaties. [It] resides in the vivid awareness people have of the danger of our times and the public determination that governments be challenged to take decisive steps against the nuclear threat." So declared Joseph Cardinal Bernardin as 262 Roman Catholic bishops of the U.S. last week met in Bernardin's Chicago to debate a 44,000-word pastoral letter on the morality of nuclear arms policy. After two days of discussion, the bishops endorsed by a large margin (238 to 9) a sweeping and, to critics...
Such grumbling to one side, Donald Spoto's account of Hitchcock's life is a vivid and perceptive portrait of a man whose character was as strange and shadowed as his films. He took a sexual kind of satisfaction in food and managed to pack as much as 365 Ibs. on a 5-ft. 8-in. frame. He had a deep terror, which he transmuted superbly into film, of policemen and jails. Making a good story of it, he said that this fear originated when, at the age of six, "I did something that my father considered worthy...
...also because her garlicky, long-skirted mother does not conform to her self-image, her need for smooth modernity and rationality. Maria's ostensible embarrassment over her heritage is a dirty trick to play. She is too finely tuned to admit this sort of flaw blithely; by nature a vivid personality. She must and does go to great lengths to avoid trite melodrama. The words she utters at the end of the play are too cliched to be the credible product of the Maria whose quick intellect has stunned us in earlier dialogues: "We're serious people. I am much...
...there a clash of vivid personalities. The young Menenhetet, age 6, has the ability to enter the minds of those around him, a power he shares, it turns out, with his mother and great-grandfather. What this means, in practice, is that mystery becomes unnecessary. Whenever one character wonders what another is thinking or feeling, telepathy comes instantly to the rescue. Different people are simply parcels of the same brain, one that usually resembles Norman Mailer's. Menenhetet I often sounds like the world's oldest existentialist: "Look for the risk. We must obey it every time. There...