Word: dolorosa
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...green-eyed brunette had scored high in the swimsuit competition. She had received repeated ovations during her talent program, a ballet set to the religious pop anthem Via Dolorosa. But it was during the beauty contest's final, brief Q&A that Miss Alabama, 21, performed her most moving feat. She answered a question. Her voice was a bit fluty and her consonants soft, but the college junior clearly understood Regis Philbin's query about self- realization; and her reply, a paean to belief in oneself, was obviously deeply felt. Minutes later, when Heather Whitestone, who is deaf...
...difficult it must be to make 'em like they used to! Reinventing movie innocence was the task facing Glimcher, 53, an art dealer who is breaking in as a director after three decades of running Manhattan's powerful Pace Gallery. He knows that the temptations on the brothers' via dolorosa will be as familiar to a late-show viewer as those that befell Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel. So there's something heroic about treating two men's love for each other as if it still could appear honest and profound. "For me," Glimcher says, "life is a series...
...enough to rehabilitate devastated nations, as Aquino has found out. In a land of political victims, she came to power as the most famous victim of Philippine dictator Marcos, who is popularly assumed to have ordered the murder of her husband. Many saw her as a veritable mater dolorosa. As devout a Roman Catholic as Chamorro, Aquino was irreproachable at the beginning of her presidency. The fearsome insurgency, led by the communist New People's Army, lost steam in the face of her saintliness. The military plotters who threatened to overthrow her were seen as thugs...
...with an appreciation of the past as well. In Jerusalem recently, he walked the Old City, brushing thousands of years of faith and murder. He would like you to see yourself as history, to wonder what you would have shouted, or at whom, as Jesus struggled up the Via Dolorosa. He hopes that you will husband your own past too. The past means possibility...
Good Friday is more somber. The zigzagging Via Dolorosa, so named only in the 16th century, is packed with pilgrims following in Christ's footsteps to Calvary. "We adore thee, O Christ ... Thou hast redeemed the world," the Franciscan monks chant in Lathi as they lead their flocks through the Arab market, through the 14 stations of the Cross. Past the small Polish chapel that marks the spot where Jesus staggered and fell under the burden of his Cross, past the Armenian church that commemorates his encounter with his mother, past the Greek chapel that honors St. Veronica...