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Evangelicalism's practitioners are quick to defend themselves. Says Jim Bakker, high-pressure preacher of TV's P.T.L. (for People That Love) Club: "If Johnson Wax didn't have an identifiable name, how would one know to buy it?" An even bigger star, Billy Graham, mildly invokes the great Evangelicals of the past to defend the jet-setting and electronic gimmickry that have become a part of his calling. "John Wesley had to go on horseback. George Whitefield had to spend all that time crossing the Atlantic 13 times. They used to have to shout at the top of their...
Wondrous as they are, the new games are not without their flaws. Code Name: Sector, the submarine chase, has a dandy digital readout, for instance, but the courses of the sub and the pursuing warships must be drawn on a chart with a wax crayon-which, as all twelve-year-olds will recognize, is not exactly state-of-the-art technology. Comp IV and Chess Challenger are not quite smart enough to bamboozle a good human player; Gammonmaster II plays its roles well but was rushed onto the market without a doubling cube (though one is in the works); Electronic...
...continuity of Mass PIRG's efforts during the year and over the years explains much of its success. Unlike many, if not most, activist student groups, Mass PIRG does not wax and wane according to the time of the year. It has staying power because the student members of PIRG hire (and fire if necessary) professionals--lawyers, economists, MBAs, and public health experts who carry through projects when students are occupied with exams, papers and vacations. When students move out of the state at the conclusion of their undergraduate studies, the staff is there to see that other students carry...
There is a moment in Holy the Firm when Annie Dillard watches a candle flame consume a golden female moth. The moth's abdomen catches in the wet wax and her wings "ignited like tissue paper, enlarging the circle of light in the clearing." Her antennae crackle, her legs disappear and her body is reduced to a glowing shell. "And then," relates Dillard, "this moth-essence, this spectacular skeleton, began to act as a wick ... She burned for two hours, until I blew...
...House of Wax (in 3-D) at 5:45, 7:45, 9:20 and special midnight shows Friday and Saturday. Star Wars are still being fought over at the Sack Charles I (227-1330) at 8, 10 and midnight. Robert Altman's California gothic 3 Women is playing next door, at the Charles II at 7:45 and 10. Jackie Bisset and Nick Nolte play beautiful but vapid people in The Deep at the Cheri III (536-2870) at 8 and 10:15. New York, New York, directed by Martin Scorsese (Mean Streets and Taxi Driver) and starring Robert DeNiro...