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...Pannonian plain near Belgrade, a colony of gypsies dwells in a clot of squalor, surviving on what they earn from buying and selling goose feathers. Outstanding among them is an erotic, intemperate feather merchant named Bora, played by Bekim Fehmiu, a Yugoslav actor strongly reminiscent of Jean-Paul Belmondo. Endlessly indulging in wife-beating and mistress-bedding, Bora downs liters of wine and scatters his seed, his feathers and his future. As the film's principal character, he meanders from confined hovels to expansive farm fields, from rural barrooms to the streets of Belgrade. Wherever he travels, he witnesses...
Though he has a reality that belongs to him alone, Bora is manifestly meant to be a symbol as well. In his final contribution to the film's bleak catalogue of miseries, he stabs his rival and flees the town. As he disappears, he be comes all gypsies-the Indians of rope who can neither escape nor brace the present and whose future is foreshadowed with doom...
...Barbara Mills Kleban was bora in England, attended Manchester University, and worked as a secretary before coming to the U.S. She was a researcher for Business for four years before becoming a reporter for that section...
...into effect a spiritual reform that became the model for much of Germany. The episcopate was abolished, since Luther had found no Scriptural warrant for the office of bishop. Clerical celibacy was abandoned, even for monks and nuns-and in 1525, Luther married a former nun, Katherine von Bora. The sacraments were reduced from seven to two: baptism and the Lord's Supper. Luther revised the Latin liturgy and translated it into German, allowing the laity to receive the consecrated wine as well as the Host, substituting a new popular hymnody for Gregorian chant. Emphasis in worship changed from...
...early '40s, my brother was given a ring represented as Martin Luther's engagement ring. It had been purchased at the Jewelry Exchange in New York from a Russian refugee. Inside the ring is visible "Martin Luther -Catherine von Bora," and under a magnifying glass the 1525 can be seen. We had it checked at the time, and could find out only that the silver was old enough to date the ring correctly, that the engraving was the type done in the 16th century, and that the ruby was genuine...