Word: communion
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...manages to get the movie back on course whenever it tends to become a little sentimental about the lot of the misunderstood loner. He has the uncanny ability to transform himself instantly from a ravaged outcast into a kid in a cowboy outfit on his way to First Communion...
...have the right to be critical of Western Europe's nation states because of their massive inequities and their failure to create communion after 15 years of Common Market experience...
...death is merely the final one.) The director, Clifford Williams, has added his own measure of slapstick humor in the staging. During the mass, for example, Henry cavalierly spills wine on somebody whenever he mentions the Pope's name, and then stuffs the abbot's mouth full of communion wafers, all of which recalls his historical feud with Pope Gregory over the issue of lay investiture. (If you're not well up on eleventh century history, you have to listen especially carefully, since the important facts all come out in quick one-liners near the beginning of the play...
...took a sort o communion one night in the Que Son valley. It was a few weeks before Christmas 1967, and some of the guys in Charlie Company were thinking about getting home for the holidays. We had been humping through the woods and the paddies all day, looking for North Vietnamese troops but not finding them. Then, just before dark, we walked into an ambush-a North Vietnamese battalion dug in in an arc around us. By nightfall a fourth of the company was dead or wounded, and we were pinned down, taking mortars and automatic-weapons fire...
Here is a movie about women's rights that Good Housekeeping might approve. Up the Sandbox stands firm on a woman's supreme fulfillment in childbirth, on motherhood as an almost mystical communion, and on home and family as domestic sacraments. These ideas may be valid, but they should at very least be open to occasional debate and review. As far as this movie is concerned, they are verities carved in granite...