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...same thing all over again. One night in a Detroit park, he recalls, "I got the jimmies-the D.T.s." At a Salvation Army headquarters, where he had been given a handout, he asked: "Do you think your Jesus could save me?" An officer advised him to go to the altar. "I went forward and I knelt and I asked Jesus. A new man was born then. I haven't touched drink or dope since...
This stubborn behavior roused the Republican New York Herald Tribune; it urged House leaders to have their heads examined. Snorted the New York Times: "The most one can say is that they were performing a sort of sacred dance before the altar of what they took to be political expedience. . . . Their gyrations were irresponsible, eccentric and foolish...
...Clann. When the phoenix of the ancients had lived upwards of 500 years, it retired to await death in the high branches of an oak or palm tree. From there a young phoenix would rise to carry the spent body of his parent to the altar of the sun. By last week Maud Gonne MacBride was 81, bedridden in a rambling old-world mansion outside of Dublin. The De Valera government, for which and against which she had fought so bitterly, had grown complacent and tired. For years Dev's party, the Fianna Fail, had known no effective opposition...
...Gugel was chosen to do the job. The three he has finished so far are indistinguishable from those made 200 years ago. But he would rather illustrate his Catholicism in his own way. And now, at 37, he has the chance. He has been commissioned to do a surrealist altar triptych and Stations of the Cross for a tiny Catholic hill chapel in Bavaria...
...would take a Freudian to detect what shame-free message Gugel has thus found in Cinderella, but churchgoers will be likely to find his surrealist chapel disturbing. By last week Gugel had completed the two side panels for the altar. One of them showed a ship built up from a thumb and forefinger keel, with its sail tattered and twisted about half a face. The title: "Resurrection" (see cut). The other panel, "Martyrdom," was even more obscure. It consisted of a mask, a bloody accordion, and some high-heeled shoes in the snow...