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...Pope John last year compared to the marvelous wheels in the sky seen by the prophet Ezekiel. The Princes of the Church, he said, are men who "move around the throne of the most highest, who have no concern except for his glory, except to carry forward his fiery chariot, who when they touch the earth transform it with the ardor of their charity...
...title is Dhéry's first gag. La Belle Américaine is not a dame but an automobile: a custom-built 1958 Olds convertible complete with bar, refrigerator, automatic everything and six blast-your-eyes-out headlights. This insolent chariot is sold to Hero Dhéry, a boob in the tube works, for the preposterous price of $100. Reason: the owner in his will bequeathed the price of the car to his mistress, but authorized his wife to make the sale...
...witness for the defense of runaways was Actor Charlton Heston, who flew in from Hollywood to testify as vice president of the Screen Actors Guild. Heston insisted that, personally, he much preferred working in the comfortable U.S. to "climbing Mount Sinai barefoot" or "riding hour after hour in a chariot in the vicinity of Rome." But many of the films cited by the complaining unions "couldn't have been made at all if they had not been made abroad." In fact, the runaways were helping Hollywood stay in business. Ben-Hur, he argued, saved M-G-M from bankruptcy...
...chariot of the title is that same vehicle Ezekiel saw, way up in the middle of the air. Or does it signify the hidden Zaddikim of Hebraic tradition, the 36 secret saints who are born in every generation and are known to metaphysicians as the Chariot of God? Or does it simply mean the Shekinah, the presence of the Lord in every man alive...
Whatever it means, White's chariot swings low over a scruffy imaginary suburb of Sydney called Sarsaparilla. There the reader discovers five moderately interesting people who, after 440 pages of intricately imagistic prose, suddenly turn out to be the principals in a real-life Passion play that finds its climax in an actual crucifixion. The suggestion is that life is the perennial Passion of a recurrent Christ...