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Show Acting Alone Page 324 had a feeling on the bus yesterday, even in his semi-coma, that Shanny's big sister had ulterior motives in sending him here. A bona-fide national lobbyist couldn't possibly be interested in this jackoff's "secular homily." "The childlike simplicity," Bopp was saying, "of the mere nuts-and-bolts aspects of nuclear weaponry shows that peace and mutual survival can no longer be maintained through esoteric, secret knowledge, but only by love and consideration among all, as, for example, those thousands of undocumented workers who cross our shores each year, and. . ." Maybe What'sername wanted Sam to meet up with Simone here, as by accident. Was he supposed to help her in some way? Cheer her up? Ask her to the prom, like in high school when less-than-dreamy guys like Sam who didn't exactly qualify as hunks always got lined yp with the skags? Who knows? This lecture per se couldn't possibly have anything to do with why he was here. At least he hoped not. ERA, Gay Priests, MX, Family Protection Act, Save the Wetbacks: Bopp flitted over every hot social issue except abortion and scumbags, and interspersed everything randomly with exhortations to let Christ be your role model. Father Bopp touched on est's cover organization, The Hunger Project. He complimented them on their "powerful" TV spot, in which the little boy gradually fills out from ghoul to li'l Spanky right before your eyes, and Lome Greene or somebody says on the voice-over that, "Hunger will end by the next century. It will. It will." "The Franciscans could learn a bit about the art of TV spot-making from Werner Eberhardt and est, eh Friars?" But none of the four was listening. It looked like at least two of |