Word: crucifixion
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...medieval drama class staged three original student translations of the Passion Plays in a Cambridge church last night, including a re-enactment of the crucifixion of Christ...
...Parris Island, a recruit was suspended by his arms from a chinning bar in a mock crucifixion that ended only when his fingertips went numb...
TIME must long for the good old days when one could have a picnic at a crucifixion or spend a satisfying afternoon watching the bloody tortures in the Roman Colosseum...
...Godspell must aim for a balance between an overall comic mood and the menacing undertones which dominate the second act. Here too Manulis, with the help of sometimes overly dramatic lighting, is generally successful. It takes a while for the troupe to establish the ominous mood foreshadowing the crucifixion, but by the time Jesus hangs on the cross--in this case, the junkyard fence--the tone is appropriately somber...
...responsibility for the sins of some kids who cuss in front of their neighbors, a drunk who dies in a flophouse room, and Jimmy Johnson himself. The verdict is hardly definitive for Gifford, who anguishes, with the italicism that is appropriate to a Monday morning quarterback of the Crucifixion, "What if he's innocent?" Jimmy Johnson has become a Christ-figure too, and before Gifford can finish his narrative/life, he must accept the burden of fingered Jimmy, who, albeit begrudgingly, bore the sins of a half-dozen tainted witnesses off to prison...