Word: comforting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...even if the vocational decline continues, the hierarchy has an answer: in recent years, lay people have taken over many of the tasks of running their parishes. "In that vision of the church, you don't need as many priests," said one bishop. That is cold comfort to Catholics who lack a priest to say Sunday Mass, but it is a vision that the bishops are determined to keep in case their gamble fails...
...Clown Care Unit at Babies Hospital four years ago, the project has grown to involve 25 trained clowns who make rounds at eight New York City hospitals. Two or three days a week, bands of these performers, dressed in mock hospital garb and bearing such names as Dr. Comfort, Dr. EBDBD and Disorderly Gordoon, visit ailing children and their families. The clowns' purpose: to alleviate the fear and confusion of hospital stays and provide bright moments with humorous routines, such as "drawing blood" -- with red crayons -- and giving funny-bone examinations. Christensen has found the C.C.U. so fulfilling that...
Cincinnati has made a name for itself as a porn-busting town: Censornati. There is not a single X-rated theater, topless bar or massage parlor inside the city limits. That is small comfort to museum directors elsewhere, who fear they could be next. Some plan to testify as expert witnesses, hoping to persuade the jury that pictures may resemble porn but also affect the viewer in the more complex manner of art. "These photographs are not meant to titillate," says Arnold Lehman, president of the Association of Art Museum Directors. "They don't have that vacuous anonymity that pornography...
...take some small comfort in the fact that we are not alone in facing serious financial pressure," Rosovsky told the Faculty. "The economic and competitive environment in which universities are now operating is extremely difficult...
Saddam has often been compared with Adolf Hitler. It would be no comfort at all to those making the comparison if he too died in a bunker amid the blazing ruins of his capital at the end of a war in which he had loosed fearful bloodshed and destruction on the world...