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1) Bus stop
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Cherie was a chanteuse. She said, "I call m'self Cherie. Thass all the name ya need - like Hidegarde. I won a amateur contest down in Joplin, Missouri, and that got me a job in a night club in Kanz City. But working in a night club ain't all roses..."
Bo Decker had his picture taken by Life magazine because he was a champion professional rodeo rider. Bo had heard about women only he'd hardly ever seen one. Bo was a large, beautiful hunk of man -...
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"The setting is a small Oklahoma town in the early 1920s and the home of the Flood family: Rubin, a traveling salesman for a harness firm; Cora his sensitive and lovely wife; Sonny, their little boy; and Reenie their teen-age daughter. The plot consists of a series of short stories -- the fight between husband and wife; the fear of an overly shy young girl on going to a dance; the problems of an introverted little boy who feels that the whole world...
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First delivered as a series of eight lectures at Oxford University, this 1899 volume in defense of the Christian faith, "to confute all heretics and schismatics," is based on nature and reason rather than signs and wonders. Mysticism is defined here as the realization-both mental and physical-of the presence of God. Included here are chapters, "The Mystical Element in the Bible," "Practical and Devotional Mysticism," "Nature-Mysticism and Symbolism,"...
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In this 1910 philosophical work, the author argues that religious faith is part of human nature, that faith takes over the entire human mind and body, and that all defects in religion result from the premature arresting of the development of faith. He criticizes appeal to the authority of Scripture and other ideas.
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Addressing an audience of both Christians and Nonconformists, the author, a distinguished scholar and theologian, takes on the subjects of "Development of the Religious Consciousness," "Falsehood in Religion," "The Religion of Christ," and more. Inge seems to be wavering between whether it is best to be someone who consistently keeps the balance of his nature or one who is abnormal and strives, in relation to religion.
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Based on William Inge's classic play, COME BACK, LITTLE SHEBA is the stirring tale of a life-weary couple who rescue hope from the ruins of the past. Shirley Booth stars in an **Academy Award**-winning performance as Lola, slovenly housewife to Doc Delaney (Burt Lancaster), a recovering alcoholic. The Delaneys' life is dull and unchanging, but takes a dramatic turn when the couple take in a charming boarder, Marie. Marie becomes the daughter the Delaneys...
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Deanie is a beautiful and sensitive teenager who would do whatever her mother and her 1928 Kansas hometown find proper. Her boyfriend, Bud, has intense desires for Deanie and the two are very much in love. But, sexual pressures in society creates a rift in their relationship. She restrains herself while Bud acts on them, but with another girl. Bud's actions drive Deanie to madness. She is committed into an institution while Bud reluctantly obeys his...
15) Picnic
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The story covers one Labor Day week-end in a small Kansas town, and tells about the impact a virile drifter has on the lives of several women in town.
16) Bus stop
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A comedy-drama about a naive but brash young cowboy from Montana who goes to Phoenix to compete in a rodeo and learns about life and love from a cafe singer whom he tries to force into marriage.
17) Bus stop
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When Bo, a naive rodeo rider, meets saloon performer Cherie, he falls head over boots in love. After he lassoes Cherie onto a bus headed for his home state, Montana, she escapes in the middle of a snowstorm. But if Bo can learn to reign in his emotions, he might convince Cherie to warm up to him.