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...TODAY, just perhaps, the prayers should go up for another man of faith to take Paul's place. For it is too easy to forget, amidst the fascinating maze of ecclesiastical politics, that the Pope must lead a spiritual community, not a gathering of scarlet-vestured Congressmen. And it is too easy to forget that Paul struggled for 15 years to hold together just such a community of faith, regardless of the cries of the extreme left or right; that he oversaw the most thorough reform the Church had seen in 2000 years; that he encouraged an unprecedented spirit...
...STAMP OF the old, uncompromising greatness is on the hard, stomping number that breaks the spell of "Miss You" and defines the pace of the album from there on, "When the Whip Comes Down." Jagger shouts from amidst a dense barrage of guitars riffing, and tells the story of a gay man who tries to make it in the City as a garbage collector. As with so many of the Stones' rockers, the hook is Mick and Keith howling the chorus, the only clearly intelligible words...
...amidst 450 acres of sweeping lawns and arching elms, Andover brims with history. Paul Revere engraved its seal; John Hancock signed its charter; George Washington addressed the school in 1789 (on horseback). English classes meet in a cupolaed schoolhouse designed by Charles Bulfinch in 1819; red brick Georgian-style buildings, many built through the beneficence of a Morgan partner in the 1920s, grace the campus...
...Chasseur de Pieuvres" brings to mind an octopus--but with only four legs. It swirls around blackly shooting out clouds of green and yellow ink amidst sea-shapes like diatoms magnified thousands of times. "Serie Barcelone" is likewise a collection of natural forms of unnatural dimensions and hues. Looking at it is like looking through a microscope at a variety of different cell structures stained orange, green, blue and every other color...
...that regrettably overshadow such fine examples of cinema verite filmmaking. The real purposes behind The Forty Day Experience come into question at junctures where the script flirts with the glorification of Ichazo, his religious system and the relevance of all this to interpersonal relationships. One shot shows Ichazo seated amidst the rural setting of a Colorado foothill (complete with a waterfall in background) as a trainee praises him: "Oscar's like a brother who's done it for you. I'm grateful." An alumnus of an asylum describes Arica as "the experience of the positive," Thanks to the wondrous effects...