Word: benedicts
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...demands consideration on two levels. On the first, it cleverly interweaves the tales of two social misfits in the late-nineteenth century St. Petersburg. Zoditch (Richard Gruish), first reader in the ramshackle Grubove publishing Company, has turned sour and misanthropic in response to his social unacceptability. But Chulkaturin (Paul Benedict), an idle landowner of independent means, has adopted a gentle, wistfully philosophic air. His memoirs, submitted posthumously to the publishing company and read by Zoditch, constitute one of the play's two plots. The other revolves around Zoditch's impoverished life in a miserable boarding house...
...place where they delivered letters addressed to "God's Gift to the U.S.A." and "My Friend, Washington, D.C." To the desk of Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the White House. This was not pure sycophancy in the Post Office. The mailmen also knew where to deliver letters addressed to "Benedict Arnold 2nd" and "Chief Shooter at the Moon, White Father of the Pretty Bubbles...
...debate last Thursday, the academic council voted 35 to 34 against the proposal. Some hoped for a compromise in which the Nixon papers would become part of Duke's library, without a special edifice bearing the Nixon name. Explained Historian Watson: "We'd all love to have Benedict Arnold's papers, but we don't want a Benedict Arnold building on campus...
...Casaroli, a moderate who has gained exposure as John Paul's loyal second in command. The other: Giovanni Benelli, 60, the conservative, often abrasive Archbishop of Florence, who was runner-up to John Paul at the 1978 conclave. There are some ancient precedents for a papal abdication. Benedict IX (1032-45) sold his office outright to the reforming Pope Gregory VI; Celestine V (Aug. 29-Dec. 13, 1294) resigned to become a hermit after realizing he was not suited for the job; Gregory XII (1406-15) abdicated as part of a deal to end a schism and reunite...
...Academy Award for The Sting, admits that she was using cocaine heavily while producing that other-worldly movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Hers is a terrifying odyssey from the front lines of the movie business to a retreat behind the white walls of her Benedict Canyon home. She is one of the few celebrities who will talk with candor about a close encounter of the worst kind...