Word: altare
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...view. If you spend your life at the movies, if your idea of complete intellectual and emotional fulfillment is the acquisition of an ability to empathize totally with a strong cinematic personality-then Sarris is definitely the man to turn to as a guide to cinematic transubstantiation. His altar even has its own iconography: casts of Angle Dickinson's body and Belmondo's mug, John Wayne's slouch and Hitchcock...
When the performance began and Cromwell appeared, the whole audience rose and cheered wildly. It was evident that this crowd was Protestant. When Cromwell interrupted the church service, striding up to the altar and knocking the golden crucifix clattering to the floor because it was a papist symbol, the audience shrieked its approval. Not merely was Cromwell the hero but Charles was the villain. During his trial there were shouts: "Do not listen to him -cut off his head." When the head was held up, there were thunderous cheers and yells: "Good for him-well done...
...turn support their spiritual needs. Financial boycotting-called a "greenout" in this house -is a protest against preaching to and talking down to instead of communicating with and listening to; it is against the use of dogma and doctrine instead of Christ and scripture; against irrelevant Holy Name and altar guild societies; against wealth, affluence (and alcoholism) among the clergy...
...their own churches to acknowledge Roman Catholic validity. Member churches, they suggested, should "declare formally" that Catholic clergy "are engaged in a valid ministry of the Gospel" and that "the body and blood of our Lord Jesus Christ are truly present in their celebrations of the sacrament of the altar...
...latter quality is principally conveyed by such lines as "Look, Ma, I'm human," and "Let's follow the monk and see what it eats." After the boy dies of hockey injuries, Martha and the monk consummate their tormented ardor at the foot of the church altar; the scene comes close to unintentional parody of the old de Sadistic monk-and-choirgirl routine...