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...unknown Pope. In his days in office John Paul was able to sign only one major decree, and even that will now become invalid: a sweeping reform of seminaries that he had postdated for December release. Ironically, the same document was approved by his predecessor, Pope Paul VI, whose postdated signature also became invalid when he died. Now the document must await the scrutiny of a third Pope...
Paradoxically, their apparent unity of aim may lead to difficulties and frustrations, if only because Luciani no longer exists as a candidate. He was a compromise, to be sure, but a happy one, whose graces and goodness had hitherto shone only in a small corner of a great church. Asks Archbishop Stanislaus Lokuang of Taipei with evident skepticism: "Will it be possible to find a man with the same qualities?" Though Luciani once described himself as a "wren" among bishops, his papacy revealed him as a rather rarer bird. His reputation for doctrinal conservatism made him acceptable to the traditionalists...
Goin' South's script, set just after the Civil War, is essentially an extended two-character sketch. The other role is Julia Tate (Mary Steenburgen), a frigid young spinster whose odd habits include hanging up chairs on wall hooks. Julia weds Moon in a marriage of convenience: she needs someone to work her unsuccessful gold mine, while he needs a respectable wife to shield him from the law. The thin story traces the predictable warming up of their relationship. Pretty soon the film becomes a string of uneven set pieces, the best of which suggest Nichols...
...before the trial begins, the experimental plan must be filed for approval with the Food and Drug Administration, whose commissioner, Donald Kennedy, has in the past called Laetrile a "fraud" and "useless." Nevertheless Kennedy too would doubtless like the Laetrile monkey off his back, and he is expected to approve the plan...
...Faerie, as the authors designate their enchanting nutshell universe, reveals a swarm of terrifying and erotic forms: gruesome spriggans who specialize in kidnaping infants and blighting crops; horse-stealing pixies; a bat-frog that preys on Welsh fishermen; amphibious hags who drown and devour careless children; a birch spirit whose touch causes madness; a practical joker known as the Fir Darrig, and assorted boggarts, bogles, goblins and fachans-all up to no good...