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Bigger almost always means better, at least in certain ways. "Superchurches can offer a great youth program for all ages, with professionals in charge, and great music, with choirs and orchestras doing it the way it ought to be done," remarks Edward Plowman of National & International Religion Report, a newsletter in Springfield, Va. Plowman recently switched from a small denominational church to a bustling independent congregation with 2,000 members. At the 4,000-member Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, Calif., the Rev. Lance Quinn says, "We have lots of things that might also be true of smaller churches...
...entry met a shocking rebuff. It is a lump-in-the-throat spot about Mike Sewell, a youth born with Down's syndrome, who found a job and happiness at McDonald's. The crowd in the giant auditorium at Cannes greeted it with raucous boos and whistles. "This is the most vicious, cynical, jaded audience in the world," said Marcio Moreira, creative director of McCann-Erickson Worldwide. "They don't like to have their emotions manipulated...
...bureau chief James Jackson and correspondent Daniel Benjamin traveled across the republic for several months. They spoke with economists in Munich, psychologists in Halle and Wuppertal, even frightened foreigners in a western asylum camp. They attended classes at the University of Leipzig, interviewed fledgling eastern businessmen, and met with youth workers in Berlin. From the windows of a Soviet-built helicopter, Jackson snapped photographs of military bases, an unheard-of act only two years...
...reverie -- in an attic stocked with antiques all the more precious to him because he alone realizes their value. The great gift of Pagnol's memoirs is to create a universal family out of what may have been his private fantasy. They capture the anecdotes of a Provence youth in a scrapbook that all can take delight in. This brace of films is a gift to moviegoers too. It might have fallen into their arms out of an impossibly sunny...
...boycotts and marches. De Klerk charges that these inspire violence and intimidation, poisoning the atmosphere for talks. But A.N.C. hard-liners feel that mass action, like international sanctions, is a vital weapon. "If you look at how the East European countries changed," says Peter Mokaba, leader of the A.N.C. Youth League, "it was mass action that actually pushed the undemocratic regimes out of power...