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...power of images and stereotypes in American's media-dominated culture. In Indian traditions, words and images not only represent but also embody the spiritual power of what they depict. This has often been compared to the way Catholics think of the bread and wine in the Communion service...
...take sides, to turn Jane into an exploitative klutz, to provide a happy, even triumphant solution to the dilemma, full of hats and horns and two birthday cakes. But, really, that's just dessert to a film that offers much chewy food for thought. The comforting dream of communion at the end can't erase the picture's careful wit about good people in desperate situations or, especially, the wan isolation shadowing a boy who knows his genius has made him alien. Says French filmmaker Louis Malle: "Jodie's film is basically about the profound loneliness of childhood...
...united, and yet the question of women's ordination has been put. Why should we subordinate ourselves to the views of other churches with whom we are not yet in unity? Rome has never sought Anglican advice on any changes it made; neither did the Orthodox communion seek Roman Catholic advice. We're looking for the things that draw us together, and there is so much. That creates the greater pain, doesn...
...acting in such a way that they were denying Christian truth. I have a very close relationship with the Prime Minister ((John Major)) and the ministers of government. We talk a lot to the Foreign Office about our hostages in Lebanon and about other things because the Anglican Communion is very much an international body. We are actually more international than the British government. We've lost our empire, the Commonwealth is in name only, but the Anglican Communion has more than 32 countries, so we've got all these links...
...interior warriors back to life" and "riding the Red, the White and the Black Horses." He talks about each male's lost "Wild Man," that hairy masculine authenticity that began getting ruined during the Industrial Revolution, when fathers left their sons and went to work in the factories. The communion between father and son vanished, the traditional connection, lore passing from father to son. And with it went the masculine identity, the meaning and energy of a man's life, which should be an adventure, an allegory, a quest. Bly, with some validating help on television from Bill Moyers...