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There's also some weird Christian symbolism. Th' identities of th' son n' th' father merge. Dad's name is Weston (Western?); Junior's is Wesley. In th' third n' final act, Dad talks about feelin' "reborn," like it was "Christmas," n' he baptizes himself in a tub of cold water. Junior does th' same, puts on Dad's clothes, n' Mom confuses him for his father. Junior also goes out n' slaughters a lamb n' practically washes himself in lamb's blood. Beats me what all this Christian symbolism is doin' in a play whose characters are as poor...
Hachette joins a fast-growing list of foreign publishers operating in the U.S. Just last February, Britain's Pearson paid $283 million to take over Addison-Wesley, a Massachusetts-based textbook maker. As the buyouts continue, U.S. publishing may become increasingly like its European counterpart, an industry that is dominated by a few behemoths...
Hahn in the interview said Bakker and evangelist John Wesley Fletcher forced her into having sex with them separately in a Florida hotel room in 1980 and then slyly boasted about it on television later...
...answering the telephone at the John Wesley Fletcher Evangelistic Association in Oklahoma City said Fletcher would make a statement after testifying today before the federal grand jury here...
...Falwell renege? He freely admitted changing his mind as the scandal continued to unfold. Falwell charged that he has since learned that on the day in 1980 in Florida when, according to Hahn, Bakker and his companion, Evangelist John Wesley Fletcher, had intercourse with her, a PTL staffer then attempted to do the same, and Bakker later asked the third man, "Did you get her too?" Said Falwell: "That made my blood boil." Falwell-installed auditors subsequently discovered that the $265,000 in hush money had been siphoned from PTL accounts through a false billing...