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...huge bell whenever the couple begin a furtive smooch. Marriage only makes things worse-until one day Carney spies a traumatic headline. Roaring drunk, he announces to the old crone that the Pope has quashed the cult of St. Philomena. Carney deposes a statue of the saint from its altar, insults his wife, and climbs into bed with his mother-in-law. Alas, the old lady soon finds a surrogate saint, the daughter is shocked and the carpenter is left to grow old disgracefully belowstairs...
...Didn't Belong." In fact most interracial romances seem to be mostly exploratory; few so far have led to the altar. "These relationships really only go so far," explains Tinoa Rodgers, 25, a New York Negro who works as a Rockefeller aide. "There's a point where they break down." Adds Rodgers: "There is always the same question when a girl agrees to date: Is it me, or the 'difference' she's interested in?" Says a Howard University graduate: "I've dated two white boys, but I don't think...
...Secret Service guards, which prompted a Congressman's quip: "It's the biggest crowd he's had this campaign." Not even his wife accompanies him on his campaign. Yet he persists. He is Harold Stassen, who quadrennially offers up his obsession on the public altar-where it is scorned...
Spain showed 23 artists whose displays were chockablock with social comment. Most notable was Eduardo Sanz's walk-in Chapel for an Important Man, where altar and stained-glass windows were replaced by abstract, luxurious designs of plastic, glass, polished wood, seemingly a bitter jest at the pious pretensions of the rich. As for Marisol, usually classified as an American artist, she scored a triumph of nationalist and artistic politicking by exhibiting as a Venezuelan, thus getting a whole pavilion for 35 of her delightfully inimitable dolls...
...site of the investigations was beside an altar of the original basilica, built by the Emperor Constantine in the 4th century and unearthed during excavations beneath St. Peter's begun in 1939. The results of the excavations led Pope Pius XII to announce in 1950 that the tomb of Peter had been discovered. Three years later, Professor Margherita Guarducci, who teaches Greek epigraphy and antiquities at the University of Rome, began studying the inscriptions on a red plaster wall inside which the skeletal remains had been found. "As soon as I saw the cloth remnants," says Dr. Guarducci...