Word: baptism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Still, Restic's TV evangelist impression didn't go over so well with me. It reminded me more of Chevy Chase in "Fletch II" than a baptism...
These financial woes all amount to a baptism by fire for Murphy...
...gets a gradual sense of the aspirations of the Catalan Renaixenca by walking the streets of Barcelona, noticing things, but the grid of the Eixample is vast and hard on the feet. Here in Domenech's choral theater, it is baptism by total immersion. The "new Barcelona" may not, in the end, produce any buildings that rival those of the late 19th century. But the fact of bringing the old ones back to civic life, in all their splendor, would be achievement enough for any city administration, Games or no Games...
...went the sales- boosting claim of Harold Bloom in 1990's The Book of J. Bloom booms again in the preposterous, opinionated, thoroughly entertaining THE AMERICAN RELIGION (Simon & Schuster; $22). The eminent Yale critic, who sees religion as "spilled poetry," turns tastemaker on U.S.-made faiths, especially Southern Baptism, where he stumbles badly, and Mormonism, which he lauds for odd originality. Pentecostalism? "Daring." New Age? Can't read the stuff. A portentous subtitle transmits Bloom's wish: "The Emergence of the Post- Christian Nation." Oh, yes. Bloom thinks America's hidden creed is Gnosticism, and, for the American...
...fact that Israelis, Palestinians and other Arabs, sworn blood enemies for more than four decades, were sitting around a table, talking. The speechmaking in the tapestry-hung Hall of Columns of the Royal Palace in Madrid that opened the Middle East peace conference was, like a wedding or a baptism, a solemn rite symbolizing a new beginning. Come what may, the Mideast crisis, perhaps the longest-running and most envenomed in the world, had passed the point where the antagonists would not even talk...