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...Catherine Muskett is too young to remember the day the Roman Catholic music died. The Latin prayers, the ethereal Gregorian chant--they were cast out of the Catholic Mass in the 1960s, after the modernizing church council known as Vatican II. But Muskett doesn't remember the '60s either. To her, today's perky folk-guitar Masses are more grating than groovy. "Catholics of my generation are starved for the real thing," she says. So each Sunday, she and her family drive half an hour to attend the Solemn High Mass, most of it in Latin, offered by St. Catherine...
...time when old religious rituals are being embraced anew by many faiths, Muskett is part of a retro-revolt among U.S. Catholics. The generation that not long ago pushed Gregorian chant into the Top 40 may now plant it back into the Mass. Since 1990, the number of U.S. Catholic dioceses allowing traditional Masses (in Latin or a mix of English and Latin) has leaped from six to 131--70% of the total. More than 150,000 people attend them each week...
...small city, with good neighborhoods and bad. Guys with pickups spin doughnuts in the mud, then stand an Ellie May or a Daisy up in the back and drive slowly through cheering throngs. When the girl collects enough Mardi Gras beads from slobbering Bubbas, she answers their obscene chant with a lift of her shirt. Fights break out. Sirens wail. It's like spring break, except nobody came from college...
...such a flashy title. I spent half of the movie waiting to find out what was so hideous and kinky about a hippy mother dragging her two kids around Morocco. Let me save you the trouble: "hideous kinky" is the "naughty" phrase that Winslet's two daughters invent and chant all over Morocco, enjoying the excitement of shouting out swear words while the natives remain unaware...
...thoughtful (or perhaps just too consciously a German citizen) to categorize the regime as universally and blatantly evil. The Party is seen at one point giving The Harmonists special permission to continue their performances despite the recent constrictions. The one riot scene, in which Nazi soldiers begin to chant derisively during the middle of a concert, shows the soldiers being suppressed by a dignified Nazi general, whom they instantly obey. At the movie's end, the Jewish members of the group leave quietly for other European countries and America...