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peeling, and all Twelve Apostles eaten away to leprous stumps. Yet, from the head of Christ, like the periscopic eyes of certain fish, two blue glass beads stood out on stalks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Notable | 12/22/1980 | See Source »

...situation, it recognizes that standards of taste are subjective." Indeed, before the crusade began, the company had decided to put no more money into The Newlywed Game and The Dating Game because, says an executive, "the company no longer found them to be in good taste." The Churches of Christ agree: those two shows are on an expanded hit list...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Striving to Shake Up Jell-O | 12/15/1980 | See Source »

...Dristan, Anacin, Chef Boyardee, Wizard air freshener and Woolite, and General Foods' Gravy Train dog food, Kool-Aid, Maxwell House coffee, Birds Eye frozen foods and JellO. (Asks an outraged General Foods executive: "How can anyone consider Jell-O un-American?") In Dayton, the Belmont Church of Christ sent in 200 cards and passed out more than 800 to people in the com munity. "This is a grass-roots type of thing, and it is spreading like a fire," claims Morris Thurman, minister of the College Church of Christ in Oklahoma City. "We do not want to hurt these...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Striving to Shake Up Jell-O | 12/15/1980 | See Source »

Daughter of a nonreligious sportswriter, Dorothy was confirmed in the Episcopal Church. She became a socialist agnostic in 1915 at the University of Illinois. "For me Christ no longer walked the streets of this world. He was 2,000 years dead and new prophets had risen up in His place," she recalled in her finely crafted autobiography, The Long Loneliness (1952). At 18 she moved to New York City, befriended young writers like Eugene O'Neill and Hart Crane, took a Marxist lover, joined the young labor movement and wrote for far-left newspapers like the Masses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Street Saint | 12/15/1980 | See Source »

...format of this Chapelle aux Dames is a huge table in the form of an equilateral triangle. On each side there are 13 place settings (a reference to the Last Supper, with Christ and his twelve Disciples). The 39 settings commemorate mythic or real women, goddesses and culture heroines, from the Bona Dea of prehistory to Georgia O'Keeffe. Each consists of a porcelain goblet, porcelain cutlery and a large plate, all reposing on ornamental cloth runners. Most of the plates bear designs based on the female genital organs, though one of them, representing English Composer Ethel Smyth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: An Obsessive Feminist Pantheon | 12/15/1980 | See Source »

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