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...delivers well-tuned rants on topics like the cult of celebrity. "Michael Jackson," he fumes, "one of the five weirdest people on the planet earth -- and the other four are his brothers. And while we're on the subject, why do I even know Tito Jackson's name, for Christ's sake? . . . The irony of Andy Warhol's statement is that many of our present-day celebrities can't even fill the 15, folks. And we don't seem to mind...
...funeral service will be held this afternoon at 2 p.m. at Christ Church on Garden Street. In lieu of flowers, donations may be sent to the Schlesinger Library for an endowed fund to be established by her friends and family...
Time: the early 21st century. Scene: the First Church of Christ, Smoker, the only place where nicotine addicts can find sanctuary in a society that has declared their pastime illegal. Communicants file up to the altar rail for a long drag on a cigarette -- a precious, stale relic from the last carton of Marlboros sold before the U.S. government banned smoking in 1997. The priest blesses the faithful, they cough in response, and all exeunt to today's hymn, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes...
Meanwhile, to the religious right, Clinton is practically the Anti-Christ. During the campaign, they waved placards warning TO VOTE FOR BILL CLINTON IS TO SIN AGAINST GOD. More recently the Virginia-based Christian Action Network called on Clinton to "fire the four horsewomen of the apocalypse: Joycelyn Elders, Kristine Gebbie, Roberta Achtenberg and Jane Alexander" -- respectively, the Surgeon General, who advocates condom distribution to high school students; the National AIDS policy coordinator; the Assistant Secretary in the Housing and Urban Development Department and the first openly lesbian nominee to be confirmed by the Senate for a high office...
...Pilate's washing his hands. The book's scholarship will upset Christian traditionalists, although it fits well with new warnings against "fundamentalism" from the Pontifical Biblical Commission. Brown treats numerous familiar details as imaginary rather than literal (the dream of Pilate's wife, the darkness at noon as Christ died). And he disdains uninformed literal readings of Scripture. The Gospel texts, contends Brown, must be interpreted carefully because they were completed decades after Jesus' life and were shaped, for example, by tensions in that later period when synagogue and church were splitting permanently. In Brown's meticulous exegesis, the troublesome...