Word: christe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...official receptions. In flashy tight clothes that played up her bosom, she flung herself toward photographers, urging Hays to get her pictured with Congressmen or celebrities. A former Hays staffer says she liked to pose "with lots of suggestion of mouth action." Once, Hays snapped at her: "For Christ's sake, you've been in enough pictures...
...Climate. Among the major denominations only the United Church of Christ and the Episcopal Church have demonstrated some degree of acceptance for the ordination of homosexuals. In 1972 the Northern California Conference of the United Church of Christ ordained the first avowed gay to the ministry of an established denomination. The Episcopal Church has one outspokenly lesbian deacon, Ellen Barrett. 30, ordained last December. Said Paul Moore Jr., the Bishop of New York, after Barrett's ordination: "Historically many of the finest clergy in our church have had this personality structure, but only recently has the social climate made...
...Roman baths for a dip with his fellow dignitaries. "Romans talk more freely in the bath," quipped the actor, adding that his watery scene was "not long enough for me to catch a cold." The movie, which features Olivia Hussey as the Virgin Mary, Robert Powell as Christ, and James Mason as Joseph of Arimathea, is due on television next spring. Ustinov, who played the emperor Nero in the 1951 film Quo Vadis, insists he is happy in the role of a heavy. "In religious films," he notes, "the best parts go to members of the opposition...
...transformed. Two side altars and their six statues, two more statues on the main altar, the devotional candles and the altar rail were all removed. Most dramatically, a new crucifix was hung behind the altar. Instead of a suffering Jesus in traditional style, worshipers now saw a modernist risen Christ, his arms raised in triumph...
...through the huts, causing constant and costly repairs. Although the cottages were filled in the summer months, the resort never came close to breaking even. Brando was driven to distraction by "middle-aged ladies from Peoria telling me, 'Mr. Brando, we loved you as Napoleon'-Napoleon, for Christ's sake -and asking for my autograph, while their husbands shove me against the wall to pose with the little lady." Admits Brando: "It was a bad idea, and it was badly managed. Why did I do it? Because I love having projects, even bad ones...