Word: basil
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Kazan at the prestigious Actors Studio (with, among others, Geraldine Page, Rod Steiger and James Dean). Then Warner Bros, offered him a long-term movie contract starting at $1,000 a week. Abruptly he found himself wearing what he called a "cocktail gown" and playing a Greek slave named Basil in a religious costume saga, The Silver Chalice. It was the sort of absurdity that Virginia Mayo used to appear in, and she was in it. Newman, who is self-conscious about his bony legs, was so abashed that, as he points out now with some glee, he refused...
...centuries, weighs heavily on the church." He continued, "The restoration of unity among Christians is one of the main concerns of the church in the last part of the 20th century. And this task is for all of us. No one can claim exemption." England's George Basil Cardinal Hume later said he was overwhelmed by the applause with which the Anglican audience responded...
...second act (better of the two), last night's assembly had degenerated into its own big party. As Lord Basil Decongestant and Lady Wilmaslipshow cavorted on stage, be-fogged alums and sotted students groped with one another, threw rice and generally had a hell of a time. So what if they couldn't hear Captain Comic, aka Lord Clark of Kent, aka Chad Hummel or even less from Ophelia Thise, played by Michael Anderson, who is mirable dictum, president of Hasty Pudding Theatricals. And may be there did seem to be two too many dancers on the stage...
...Carlos of Spain, still steamed that the royal couple were departing on their honeymoon cruise from the contested Rock of Gibraltar, stayed away as announced, but send a gift. The Rev. Ian Paisley, an Orangeman of the deepest hue, was dismayed that the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Basil Hume, had been asked to say a prayer during the ceremony, and made his displeasure known in a rhetorical thunderbolt: "May God bless the Prince and his bride-to-be, but may God deliver the House of Windsor from the conspiracy of Rome to subvert the Protestant monarchy...
Throughout the world, Catholics flocked to churches to pray at special services for the Pope. At one such ceremony, in London's Westminster Cathedral, Basil Cardinal Hume delivered what may have been the most telling tribute to the Pontiff. Said Hume: "He is now at one with the countless victims of violence of our day. He, like them, has now followed in the footsteps of a Master who was himself so cruelly and callously tortured and killed. He, like his Master, refuses to condemn, is ready to forgive...