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Nothing unorthodox there, strictly speaking. As both fully human and fully divine, Jesus is viewed in Christian theology as free of sin but subject to all temptations, including sexual ones. Following Kazantzakis, however, Scorsese presents the early Jesus as a weak and dithering collaborator who builds crosses used by the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: A Holy Furor | 8/15/1988 | See Source »

Spencer's sociology and cosmopolitan tastes are not obvious. Geography, class and manners are surfaces that refract the deeper feelings and emerging awarenesses of her characters. Some are confronted with familiar situations. The young woman in the title story learns the truth about her parents' marriage after her mother dies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Good Hand JACK OF DIAMONDS | 8/15/1988 | See Source »

What is to become of the third-grade girl who wrote in her journal, "I'll have my own children someday, I'll be sure to do this and that. Then I'll kill myself."? Another entry: "The best thing about a pet is that it dies." And "I would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Through the Eyes of Children: Bianca, New Orleans | 8/8/1988 | See Source »

Stalin despised it as "decadent bourgeois formalism" and had it locked away. Khrushchev called it excrement and branded its creators "pederasts." Brezhnev ordered bulldozers to smash it into the ground at an outdoor exhibit. Such has been the fate of Russia's modernist art at the hands of dictators bent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Beyond The Wildest Expectations | 7/18/1988 | See Source »

Vera and Torre attempt to secure Lopito's release, but they realize only too late that they are helpless in the government's insidious tangle of lies and deception. Although he is too weak to move, the police force Lopito to push a heavy cement roller across a basketball court...

Author: By Katherine E. Bliss, | Title: Donoso's Vague Chile | 7/6/1988 | See Source »

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