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David Koresh -- high school dropout, rock musician, polygamist preacher -- built his church on a simple message: "If the Bible is true, then I'm Christ." It was enough to draw more than a hundred people to join him at an armed fortress near Waco, Texas, to await the end of the world. The same message tempted Koresh to entertain a vision of martyrdom for himself. He would die in a battle against unbelievers, then be joined in heaven by the followers who chose to lay down their lives...
...good amount of credit is due to the Bach Society's Sarah Hicks and Evan Christ for directing very possibly the best orchestra that has played at a student production this year. Crisp and explosive, the strings also show an ability to caress and coax the ear in the in subtler arias. With the exception of several errors in the French horn solo in the second act, the orchestra meets the challenge of Rossini's score...
...that Afrocentrics are misguided, I am reminded that the basic book of Western Civilization, the bible--which I'm reading line by line and reading all the commentary on--justifies slavery, misogyny, missandry, homophobia, persecution of followers of other gods, and that the central figure of Western Civilization, Jesus Christ, makes very intolerant speeches about Greeks and Samaratins; he was a vulgar nationalist. And I think something is to be said for both sides. When [West] lectures [Afrocentics] for their fascism, he tolerates fascism in the feminist movement. I think that's a disagreement that we have...
Lichacz collected the remnants of pottery, some of which are more than 5000 years old, near her birthplace, Managrillo. She incorporates these into pieces exploring the images of the Trinity, the birth of Christ and the compassion of the Virgin Mary...
...associates this form with birth, spiritual regeneration and her own recycling of past artistic traditions. In "Notre Dame," one of the few paintings on display, a red form emanates from a larger, gray shape. Lichacz says she hoped the image would suggest the birth of Jesus--the blood of Christ originating from the Virgin...