Word: bishops
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...work, created in 1975 by Sculptor Edwina Sandys, 45, for the United Nations' Decade for Women, had been shown in galleries and art exhibits, but it had never before been displayed in a church. To New York Suffragan Bishop Walter Dennis, it was a "desecration" of Christian symbols. He urged parishioners to write the diocese's presiding bishop, the Rt. Rev. Paul Moore Jr., "if it shocks you as much as it did me." Cathedral Dean James Parks Morton, who organized the display with Moore's concurrence, responded that the effort to "send a positive message...
...sense that may be true. But such talk of a unified Germany, however vaguely expressed, still causes anxiety on a continent where the war sis all too clearly remembered. Says Bishop Albrecht Schönherr, who was the leader of the East German Lutheran Church until he retired 2½ years...
...among its four salesmen: Roma (Joe Mantegna), the slick master of sympathetic patter; Aaronow (Mike Nussbaum), an aging nebbish trudging on the treadmill of anxiety; Moss (James Tolkan), bullet-headed and bull-tempered; and Levene (Robert Prosky), a salesman on a long losing streak, who can beam like a bishop at good news and just as quickly turn to wheedling for his job. Running herd on these macho individualists is the consummate organization man, Williamson (J.T. Walsh). What is this, an MTM sitcom gone bilious? No, more like The Front Page staged in the lower depths...
Fool-Fo, impersonating by turns a police inspector, a high-court judge and a bishop, leads the local police through what is supposedly an official investigation of the anarchist's death. They (Tom Hewitt as the captain, Michael Jeter as the sergeant, Joe Palmieri as an inspector, Raymond Serra as the police chief) are basically cartoons of goons, the Four Stooges horsing around in the basement of the Lubyanka. Fo's jokes sometimes foozle aimlessly about the room like a balloon that jets on its own escaping air. An effort to give an essentially Italian product some American...
...think that they're really a cover-up for doing nothing at the levels where they really mean anything," says Bishop Trevor Huddleston, a leader of the anti-apartheid movement, director at the International Defense and Aid Fund (IDAF) and South African resident. The IDAF provides legal aid to South Africans challenging the legality of elements of the apartheid system. Timothy R. Smith, the executive director of the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility, which coordinates $8 billion in investments held by a group of American churches, adds. "It is clear that over the past year the presence of American companies...