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...symbol do?" Raquel Welch, 36, once asked her friend Henry Kissinger. But Raquel is hardly over the hill yet. After a three-continent swing with a song-and-dance routine, she took a new act to Lake Tahoe, Nev., where she played to enthusiastic audiences. At Easter, her latest film, The Prince and the Pauper, with Rex Harrison, Oliver Reed and George C. Scott, is scheduled for release. Says Raquel: "There are a number of ladies who do it all: music, movies, shows-and, well, I'm just one of those...
...last months, he lived in a drab New York City hotel room, forbidden by his superiors in the Roman Catholic Church to work in his beloved Paris, surrounded by few friends. He died at 73, on Easter Sunday, in 1955. The earth at the cemetery near Poughkeepsie was still frozen; when he was finally buried, only gravediggers were in attendance. Yet the gaunt figure of this French priest in exile, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, looms large over the intellectual history of 20th century Catholicism...
...many New Testament stories, as many Bible experts do, and still learn enough about Jesus to believe in him. Küng himself doubts many of Christ's miracles and considers the story of his birth largely legendary. For him, the center of faith is not Christmas but Easter. He vividly portrays Jesus' growing struggle with the Jewish religious leaders over his reinterpretations of the law and his personal claims of authority. The result was the sentence to the cross. Küng is perplexed by the Gospel accounts of the resurrection, but, he says, the apostles...
...More sugar is consumed on Christmas Day in America than on Easter, Halloween, and Yom Kipper combined...
...scene is a poor, bedraggled Dublin district during the doomed 1916 Easter Week Rebellion. O'Casey had no illusions about that sadly absurdist affray. Commandant Jack Clitheroe (Clive Geraghty) of the Irish Citizen Army is a crackbrained patriot who is willing to die for his country but not to live for it. The Dublin tenement dwellers are represented as drunken, excitable souls, passionately unified by a nationalistic cause...