Word: fathering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Remember that Arab sheik who set Beverly Hills agog with his mint-green, late baroque-kitsch mansion? Now his father, Sheik Mohammad Al-Fassi, 47, head of an international shipping company, is involved in a new episode of Arabian-Angeleno misunderstanding...
...Father Dudko's reputation rests mainly on nine sermons delivered at St. Nicholas' Church in Moscow in late 1973 and 1974. In the West, it is difficult to appreciate their impact or the courage required to deliver them. The churches in the U.S.S.R. are not permitted to distribute books publicly, conduct classes or discussion groups. Indeed, they cannot evangelize at all. The sermon is the only means left to instruct the faithful, but priests have long been expected to limit their remarks to matters of ritual...
...Father Dudko is encouraged by the founding in 1976 of the Christian Committee for the Defense of Believers' Rights, though Father Gleb Yakunin and other leaders have reportedly been threatened with prosecution if they persist in their efforts. Dudko also takes heart from what he sees as a religious revival. "There is a spiritual crisis in this country, a vacuum that has to be filled," he says. "A woman came to me and asked for her child to be baptized even though she is not a Christian. Why? She replied, 'To fill the emptiness in my child...
...close she has come was visible last month at her Kennedy Center debut in Baryshnikov's version of Don Quixote. Very close. As Kitri, the spitfire Spanish girl who defies her innkeeper father and marries Basil, the barber of her choice, Gelsey has the kind of high-stepping, scenery-chewing part that can hurl an artist into stardom. Don Q offers some of the great bravura set pieces in the classical repertory, and Baryshnikov has seen to it that the routines spill into each other and positively spatter on the stage, threatening to engulf the aisles and even (somebody call...
Kirkland mugs like a trouper, perfectly attuned to the broad style of "classical vaudeville" that Baryshnikov chose for his tribute to this sturdy war horse of Russian ballet. When she is in the presence of Gamache, the unwanted suitor pressed upon her by her father, her eyes roll in exaggerated disdain. She transforms her snapping fan into an épée to prod this fopling across the stage and out of her sight. Her face flares in coquettish outrage at brash Basil's proffered kisses; she singes and melts at the same time. When she is onstage with the demented...