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...Bush's hopes for a buoyant bounce from that speech were sacrificed on the altar of Dan Quayle, the man he had selected only two days earlier to be his running mate. The surprise choice, and the way it was handled, revealed some of the weaknesses of Bush's approach to governance -- from a crippling fear of leaks to a distaste for face-to-face confrontation. At one point, only hours before Bush's acceptance speech, campaign aides considered the possibility that Quayle might be dumped from the ticket. Although Quayle survived the initial storm, there were strong indications that...
...Scorsese, a former altar boy who once wanted to be a priest, the movie is no frivolous matter. Actress Barbara Hershey, who plays Mary Magdalene, gave him a copy of the Kazantzakis novel in 1972, and he has been contemplating it ever since. Kazantzakis' Jesus, he insists, is both human and divine, in accordance with Christian teaching. What interested Scorsese in the author's approach "was that the human part of Jesus would have trouble accepting the divine...
...today's temple of the body is the health spa, its altar is the Nautilus machine and its Bible is Prevention, the 38-year-old monthly health magazine (circ. 2.9 million). Prevention once ran an article on how to guard against skin cancer; each year, it said, readers should measure every mole on their bodies (with a little help from their friends) and keep careful records on a diagram...
Maybe Mrs. Helmsley did it as a public service. After all, her calamity has brought pleasure to millions. The sacrifice of plutocrats on the altar of public scandal is a treasured ritual of the American civil religion. And the Helmsleys were already among the least sympathetic of the wealth celebrities coughed up by the Reagan era. He is a landlord: 50,000 apartments, along with other real estate. She is the self-proclaimed "queen" of his hotel chain, famous for being nasty to the help, and a walking exaggeration of every cliche about the second wife as a social type...
...strike was in its sixth day at the Lenin steel mill in Nowa Huta outside Krakow. About 800 strikers gathered for a Mass around a makeshift altar with a homemade cross in the pressing department...