Word: connors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...weekly men's prayer group, he finally decided to take Communion. "Well, I wasn't struck down by a bolt & of lightning and the ceiling didn't open up," he says. "The church and I are at odds, but I feel I'm right on this one." Bernie O'Connor, who manages the gym Mass, says, "It's an individual thing. There are no Communion police, so no one will say, 'You're divorced...
...great candidate for reimbursement. At least Smith Barney couldn't be accused of paying me off to cover up my broker's mistakes. And whatever modest sum it might choose to advance me would go a long way toward cementing my future loyalty. But spokesman Bob Connor wasn't buying any of this, and Cohen at Mellon said there was no chance that Mellon Bank would pay for my mistakes in the future if I moved my account over there. Personally, I think both firms are being short-sighted, especially when you consider that banks are about to get government...
...play's climax, Jabe, in a jealous rage, tries to kill Val and inadvertently shoots his wife. Making what Flannery O'Connor calls "a good case for distortion," the scene risks appearing ridiculously melodramatic to modern viewers...
...Connor has already gone way past outspoken. Since releasing her first album in 1987, she has ripped up a picture of the Pope on national TV, engaged in a war of words with Frank Sinatra and accused her mother of stomping on her belly to try to burst her uterus. But her controversies do seem to make her music all the more varied and pungent, and no one can dispute that O'Connor has an astonishing voice. Her new album, Universal Mother, starts not a little acrimoniously with the grinding, pulsating Fire on Babylon, in which the singer again attacks...
...three singers strive to connect themselves to old, grand traditions. They use Celtic imagery, and Keineg sings one song, the stately O Iesu Mawr, in Gaelic; O'Connor quotes William Butler Yeats on the liner notes of her CD, and O'Riordan pays him tribute in the song Yeats' Grave. This awareness of a particular past helps distinguish their songs from the typical rootless algae of pop music. In his poem A Coat, Yeats wrote, "I made my song a coat/ Covered with embroideries/ Out of old mythologies/ From heel to throat." As modern women conscious of an Irish heritage...