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Devout families--and predator priests frequently chose their victims from the most ardent parishioners--had been taught for generations to exalt, respect and trust priests. Who could imagine dear Father Tim--who came to dinner, played with the kids, counseled mom, acted like a dad--would do something so sinful? Doubting the priest would cost you your spiritual security. When Ralph Sidaway told his mother roughly 65 years ago that a parish priest had molested him, "she beat the crap out of him, because you don't say that about priests," says Sheldon Stevens, a Florida lawyer who handled...
Theater director Max Stafford-Clark is no stranger to controversy. An ardent promoter of new writing through his Out Of Joint company, he brought to the stage such succès de scandale as Mark Ravenhill's 1996 hit about sex and consumerism, Shopping and F______. Even he, though, may have been taken aback by the furor that has attended his latest project: Sebastian Barry's Hinterland, a co-production between Out Of Joint, the Abbey Theatre in Dublin and London's Royal National Theatre...
Abdullah's straight talk doesn't go down well with everyone. His relations with Washington soured last year as he vented his personal anger with the Bush Administration. Because of Abdullah's belief that Bush was ignoring the Palestinian issue, about which he feels passionate as an ardent Arab nationalist, he had turned down invitations to visit Washington, including one handwritten by Bush himself. Then, while watching a live press conference on TV one day in August, Abdullah became furious at the way the President, he felt, was putting all the blame for the spiraling violence on Yasser Arafat...
Signac was also an energetic and talented writer, an avid reader and bibliophile, and an ardent backer of the avant-garde in the days when that word actually meant something. "The golden age has not passed," ran the subtitle he appended to an enormous didactic canvas, In the Time of Harmony, 1893-95. "It lies in the future." The picture set out to depict the joys of anarchist cooperation: free love, picnics, games of boule on the beach, farm labor made easy by a steam-powered reaper in the distance. What in fact lay in the future was the trenches...
...melody with a curious style of quasi-singing that can only be described as guttural muttering. The technique is featured prominently on the album’s first single, the ridiculously titled “I’m a Slave 4 U.” Even her most ardent fans would concede that she is worthless as a pure vocalist, but bad vocalists can still be effective singers: witness Bob Dylan. Instead of electronically manipulating her voice à la Cher in 1998’s “Believe,” Spears’ producers have...