Word: crucifixion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Brian, Christ's next-door neighbor as a toddler, grows up to hate the Roman oppressors, and joins a group of Judaean terrorists. He raids Pilate's palace with them, gets caught, and is sentenced to crucifixion by the proconsul, whose speech impediment undermines his pomp ("Bwian, you awe sentenced to cwucifixion...
...tell of more than 500 Jews who saw the resurrected Jesus (I Corinthians 15: 5-8), so it was not a universal experience among Jews. But, Lapide argues, "if the Disciples were totally disappointed and on the verge of desperate flight because of the very real reason of the Crucifixion, it took another very real reason in order to transform them from a band of disheartened and dejected Jews into the most self-confident missionary society in world history." He concludes that a bodily resurrection could possibly have been that reason...
...cycle of sacrifice unwinds." "Crucifixion"--Phil Ochs...
...resulting 23-page paper proved to be hardly better than a high school essay. Then came revelations of similar huge consulting fees to other political buddies. Chicagoans' anger increased. Finally stung, Bilandic made a bizarre speech in which he likened the attacks on him to the Crucifixion and the criticism of the city to the Holocaust. He charged that the same "subversives" who had toppled governments in Iran and Cambodia were now trying to undermine Chicago...
...photos of herself with Daley. Laboring under Byrne's verbal barrage and a charge that one of his aides was improperly awarded a no-bid snow-removal contract, Bilandic played the martyr--an ill-advised ploy in a city like Chicago. He compared the attacks against him to the crucifixion of Jesus and the persecution of Jews and blacks...