Word: christly
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During his speech near the Business School last week, Jackson lambasted Vice President George Bush for his criticism of Dukakis' membership in the American Civil Liberties Union. Jackson charged that Bush saw the ACLU as an insurgent group, and claimed that Jesus Christ, the Jews in Nazi Germany, and Martin Luther king, Jr. were all viewed by their tormentors as insurgents. Bush, he said, was on a "mean and ugly" side of history...
Founded in 1908 by the Church of Christ, Scientist, the Boston-based Monitor was created, in the words of its first editor, Archibald McLellan, to "publish the real news of the world in a clean, wholesome manner" -- a rarity in an era of yellow journalism. It soon won a reputation for thoughtful, analytical coverage of foreign events. In the 1970s, however, its readership began to dwindle. Worldwide circulation last year was 176,000 -- up from a 1982 low of 144,000 but still small for a national daily. Worse, the median age of its readers is a mature...
...getting off, in so many ways, that it is a wonder she found time to lend her voice to the narration. As he demonstrated in his 1984 Bright Lights, Big City, Jay McInerney knows this turf and its voices ("I'm like, it's two in the afternoon, for Christ's sake. Most normal people have already been to sleep at least once already"). But, as in Bright Lights, McInerney is best at being mean; the novel is too shrill, too chill for compassion. Social satire may not demand a big heart, but moralizing does, and when McInerney tries...
...LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST. Now that ticket lines are replacing picket lines, Martin Scorsese's terrific film can be appreciated as a passionate, full-bodied meditation on Jesus' humanity...
...LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST. There was a movie buried under all the pre- release protest. Now that ticket lines are replacing picket lines, Martin Scorsese's film can be seen as a full-bodied meditation on Jesus' humanity. And a terrific movie...