Word: crucifixes
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Today, for instance, not a single English 13th century wooden crucifix figure survives in England; to find a probable example, the organizers of this show had to borrow an exquisite polychrome Christ from Norway, where it had been made by a traveling English artist for a church in Bergen around 1230-45. Just as in the greatest monuments of English Gothic today -- the Lady Chapel of Ely Cathedral, say -- one sees only the bare background of a decorative and sculptural scheme whose figural richness can never be restored or even reimagined, so the remains of medieval sculpture that have been...
Though she claimed to have converted to Roman Catholicism and wore a plastic rosary and crucifix around her neck, Alice declared herself the possessor of many supernatural powers that have no connection with Christian belief. She spoke only Acholi and a smattering of English but claimed that her spirit was fluent in 74 languages. The oil she encouraged rebel fighters to smear on their bodies, which came from shea trees and is used in the manufacture of shampoo in the West, would make bullets "slip on top of your skin" and bounce back at the enemy. Alice also passed...
...dude, of course. Check out this song..." He launched into a semi-rap, arms folding and refolding across his chest, combat boots stamping a muddled beat. The main themes of his tune seemed to be Catholicism, jism, blood, and bondage. In one climactic verse the words "juxtaposition" "crucifix" and "pumping" followed each other in quick succession...
...film serves its subject, rather than imposing an ironic gloss. It communicates a girl's consuming joy in finding, in Jesus, the object of her obsession. It also takes a peasant's pleasure in the texture and even the temperature of every icon, from a bed warmer to a crucifix to the face of an old crippled nun preparing to die. "Give me a kiss," she demands of young Therese. "A real kiss. The kind that warms you up." The movie is a saint's chaste kiss that warms...
...there anything blasphemous in the gossipy intimacies that Therese swaps with her young acolytes about their love for Jesus. "Fondle him," she advises a friend. "That's how I snared him." Therese dies as she lived, a coquette for Christ, gaily fanning the crucifix on her sickbed pillow. "Back together again?" a nun asks of Therese and her beloved. The girl nods: "Poor thing. He's so lonely." Her mission was to make everyone feel happier, less lonely. A century later, she does so on film. Therese is enough to restore one's faith, at least, in the power...