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...jacket also tells us that the person playing the piano on the vinyl is named Hargus "Pig" Robbins and that Slim has cut a single entitled "Where Is the Christ in Christmas?" It is everything one can do to peel the plastic off the cover...
With such material, who could go wrong? Probably lots of people, but Webber and Rice are not among them. They have not aimed so high as they did in their later Jesus Christ Superstar or Evita, but compared with those hits Joseph is better rounded, more buoyant and totally unpretentious. Despite its several transformations and elongations, it retains the child like wonder that it must have had when it was performed by children...
Some of the dishes captured by Callen are famous but hard to find outside of country cottages and inns. And they can be quite elegant. Torta Pasqualina, the Italian Easter pie from Liguria, is made with 33 layers of dough to symbolize Christ's age at his death. And there is Beautiful Aurora's Pillow, a pastry puffed up by the immortal Brillat-Savarin that combines pheasant, veal, pork, foie gras, Cognac and truffles, which might be accompanied by pinaattiohukaiset, a Finnish spinach pancake that is far easier to eat than pronounce...
...Cloisters in 1963. The Bury St. Edmunds Cross, a 12th century English ivory carving, was and still is one of the finest medieval objects in America. It is unsettling as well, since much of its complicated biblical and patristic symbolism insists that the Jews were the killers of Christ and thus an accursed people, so detestable that the usual inscription over the crucified Savior's head, "King of the Jews," appears as "King of the Confessors." If ever one needed proof that a work of art can be both aesthetically ravishing and morally vile, the cross supplies...
...midplay a second parody begins. Four of the nun's former students have come to perform a kind of Passion Play that had been staged by one of their classmates in their years at the school. The little troupe enacts the life of Christ from his birth in Bethlehem to his Crucifixion on Golgotha...