Word: cassocks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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MARRIED. Rachel Ward, 25, English actress who played the cassock-chasing heroine of TV's The Thorn Birds; and Bryan Brown, 35, rugged Australian actor who was her spurned husband in the mini-series but who struck real-life romantic sparks while they were filming; both for the first time; in Cornwell, Oxfordshire, England...
Because we are traditionalist Orthodox clergymen (belonging to that part of the Church of Greece which adheres to the Julian Calendar), we maintain the clerical dress (black cassock, uncut hair and beard) of the Orthodox clergy throughout Europe--even though our monastery, a dependency of a large Greek monastic house, is in the United States. It has been our view that geography should not compromise tradition, especially when one is in a country which champions religious freedom...
...Pope stood immobile for an instant. Then he collapsed backward into the arms of his personal secretary, Monsignor Stanislaw Dziwisz. The Pope looked at his hands, one of which was bloodied. Bright red blood began to spurt from his abdomen onto his gleaming white cassock. Francesco Passanisi, inspector general of the Vatican police, who had been following close behind the campagnola, leaped aboard and ordered the driver to "move back and forth," presenting a blurred target for any further shots. Recalled Passanisi later: "As I was supporting the Pope, he was saying 'Thank you, thank...
...PRIEST STANDS at one end of the hall, the revolutionary at the other--white cassock and Bible against khaki fatigues and M-1 rifle. The symbols are the obvious ones, but through them A Time of Fire attempts to come to grips with the personal side of revolution in Central America...
Richard also loves dressing up to different costumes, whether a severe coat or bright red cape. When he hankers for the throne but pretends piously to reject sit, he finally takes off a dun-colored clerical cassock and turns it inside out to reveal--hilariously--an instantaneous royal-purple velvet gown...