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...stems from the very success in so many fields of its members, who are generally from the better-off, better-educated stratum of Spanish life. The Jesuits resent Opus Dei's incursions into Spanish education, and old-fashioned businessmen blamed Opus Dei when they lost their clients to brash young Opus Dei competitors. With their air of enthusiastic self-righteousness, Opus Dei members often irritate both laity and clergy-particularly since in many areas they accomplish more than the church. With their insistence that secular life should be Christianized rather than Christianity secularized, they raise inevitable suspicions in some...
...gestures suggest that he is as desperate as a man of his low-Court standing should be. Daniel Chumley plays the immortal Bottom with great exuberance, and a fine, rasping voice. But he played Bottom as a stand-up comedian, conscious of his power to entertain. Chumley is so brash that he succeeds in sounding not the least bit awed in the "Bottom's dream" speech...
...code name, he said, was Aspida (shield), but his most damaging statement was that their leader was none other than Papandreou's son Andreas, onetime chairman of the department of economics at the University of California at Berkeley and for a while a naturalized U.S. citizen. Andreas' ambitions, his brash style and socialist leanings make him nothing less than a political outlaw to the royalists...
...TAMING OF THE SHREW. Italian Director Franco Zeffirelli has breathed new life into Shakespeare's bawdy comedy with a brash and breezy style and lusty performances from Burton and Taylor...
...TAMING OF THE SHREW. Italian Director Franco Zeffirelli has breathed new life into Shakespeare's bawdy comedy with a brash and breezy style and lusty performances from Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor...