Word: christiane
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Baltimore politician and former fund raiser for Agnew, met a different fate after he had cited the Fifth Amendment and refused to say anything at all. Muth was turned loose at the courthouse garage entrance where the newsmen were massed ? a procedure similar to providing a Christian a path to freedom that led directly through the lions...
...were back on the streets, although their pages were subject to strict censorship. One of the city's three television channels was also operating, under close military supervision. And in a very modest way, politics had started up again. At a press conference, Patrick Alywin, president of the Christian Democrats, dared to challenge a statement by one of the junta's leaders -namely, that the military was considering a new constitution. Alywin said that the Christian Democrats, even though they backed the junta, did not believe that "a constitutional system can be imposed on the people...
...street," Philpott reports. "Now most of them are referrals from social agencies." Since hard-drug usage has tapered off, The Center in Menlo Park now spends up to half its time on emotional problems instead of only addiction. Says Director Ted Wise, one of the first hippie Christians: "We use the Bible as therapy. It is as effective as anything going." Wise adds that the Jesus kids are growing up, marrying and having children. "They are more concerned with working out their life situations as families, rather than as Gospel gypsies." Other Jesus alumni are less noticeable because they...
...this was preamble to his immense glass-and-metal masterwork The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even. This rich, elusive composition is a bulwark against interpretation; it contains satires and celebrations of mechanics, Christian mysticism and sexual fantasy−including some of Duchamp's cherished obsessions, a "male" chocolate grinder and a mechanical bride with a reservoir of "love gasoline." The Bride is no facile construction, as Duchamp makes clear in detailed annotations reminiscent of Da Vinci's code notebooks. The artist worked on his construction for eight years, then abandoned his Bride...
...less she liked. The Quakers who founded the first American prison in Philadelphia in 1790 may have thought that rescuing sinners from a wicked world and putting them in solitary with a Bible was more humane than flogging, branding or the stocks. But Miss Mitford can find no Christian words for the costs, theories and failures of a punitive system that has since swelled into a coast-to-coast community of 1.33 million incarcerated Americans...