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...have had something to do with it. And certain women, writes author Sally Cunneen, were "inoculated against" the Virgin as they embraced feminism. Those inspired by the upcoming season to reflect on the Heavenly Mother's ups and downs (as well as those who remembered to celebrate the recent Feast of the Immaculate Conception) will lose themselves in two current books: Cunneen's In Search of Mary (Ballantine; $14) and Jaroslav Pelikan's Mary Through the Centuries (Yale University Press; $25). No one reading either of them will be tempted to count Miraculous Medals out permanently...
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...listening classes is less overtly competitive. Triumph for the gatherer is a far less public affair than it is for the hunter. It comes from recognition of the breadth of opinions and ideas to which one has been exposed and then from selecting choice morsels for the intellectual feast which this gathering effort makes possible...
...matter how vivid the danger lurking deep within its corridors, a game like Quake would be little more than a feast for the eye without equally rich 3-D grunts and groans. That's where Bose's top speakers come in handy: the amplifier and two ear-thrashing cubes will replace that grating, tin-can PC sound with a digital symphony. ($699; Bose...
...film is, in an old phrase, beyond gorgeous: a feast whose splendor serves Almasy complex passions. The cast is superb: Binoche, with her thin, seraphic smile; Scott Thomas, aware of the spell she casts but not flaunting it; Fiennes, especially, radiating sexy mystery, threat shrouded in hauteur. Doom and drive rarely have so much stately star quality...