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...Charisse, Leslie Caron, Audrey Hepburn, Barrie Chase. But Astaire's solos became his signature pieces. On his own, he used stage props - and the properties of film - as cleverly as he had earlier translated stage dance to the screen. He defied time by dancing in slow motion in "Easter Parade," defied gravity by dancing up walls and across ceilings in "Royal Wedding," defied age by hoofing serenely through his sixth, seventh and eighth decades. He conquered television with a brace of specials in the late 50s. He turned to straight acting and won an Oscar nomination (his first...
...itself to new cultures, to old customs and to social change. It once conducted Masses solely in Latin; now it doesn't. Communion was once dispensed solely by the priest; now lay people can distribute it. Even some of the deepest and oldest rituals in Catholic life--like the Easter Vigil ceremony--were imported in part from pagan rituals. In Africa and Asia, all kinds of cultural accommodations are made to bring the faith across cultures and into people's hearts. If this can be done for the Third World, why not the First...
...kind: 20,000 in Falmouth, 30,000 in Newcastle (including a streaker with "Rude Britannia" painted on his pale buttocks). Partly this is sympathy for a woman who has just lost her sister, Princess Margaret, who died at age 71 in February, and mother, who died Easter weekend at 101. Perhaps, after the throngs that lined London's streets for the Queen Mother's funeral, it also represents a surprised rediscovery that the royal family-not just charismatic black sheep Diana, but its dutiful core-has something to offer. Yet most of all it is respect for Elizabeth, as someone...
...Israelis hoped that the shortage of food and water would force an end to the standoff. They sent chocolate in for the priests on Greek Orthodox Easter but blocked any cigarettes from getting in. "Imagine smokers who haven't had a cigarette for a few days, let alone weeks," said a member of the Israeli negotiating team that huddled with Palestinian officials to end the siege. "You wouldn't be able to stand it." Hungry and frightened, almost 100 civilians left the church over the first few weeks. The soldiers and gunmen stayed, as did the priests, determined to protect...
...idea for Harvard’s first-ever Easter Mission came to Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church Rev. Peter J. Gomes, after he served as Easter Missioner at Oxford University’s annual mission last spring...