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...early age. Some bishops and theologians agree with Sheen that it makes more pastoral sense to administer the sacrament only when the confirmant is old enough to understand his commitment. The words and acts of the ritual tend to support this view: when the bishop anoints the forehead with chrism, a mixture of olive oil and balm, he also administers a ceremonial slap on the cheek to remind him that he must be ready to suffer for his faith...
...room before each performance. On the day of the finals, he arose from a practice session and in his excitement cracked his head on a ledge protruding from a wall and collapsed against the Steinway. Revived, he refused a bandage for the one-inch gash in his forehead and, bloody but unbowed, trudged off to play with a driving intensity and the pyrotechnical flair of a young Horowitz...
...waves breaking on beaches, whether they are Senegalese or Tahitian, becomes tiresome. Like most amateur filmmakers, Brown doesn't know where to end The Endless Summer; he has to show just one more well-known surfing haunt and one more surfer bleeding from an ugly gash on the forehead. The ingenuous quips and noises eventually come to seem plainly adolescent...
...York City Opera's opening production of Handel's Julius Caesar last week was just minutes old when Contralto Maureen Forrester fixed hand to forehead, shuddered "Woe unto me," and fainted dead away. Contralto roles are like that, full of weeping and despair, the tragic counterweights that support the romantic leads. Forrester, making her U.S. operatic debut, flawlessly performed the role of Cornelia, effortlessly pouring out great billows of plum-shaded singing that served as a lush backdrop for the vocal scrollwork of the other principal singers. Where they thrilled, she caressed. Predictably, the heaviest applause went...
...lady. She is, in fact, Lieut. Colonel Ruth Briggs, 55, a much-bemedaled, widely experienced veteran of 20 years in the WACs, who was enticed out of retirement by Governor Chafee to take a crack at Socialite Pell, 47. Colonel Briggs, her hair swept back from the forehead and braided on top as it has been for the past 20 years, has been lambasting Pell for weeks, touring factories and stores with a firm handshake, steady blue eyes and a brisk "I'm Colonel Briggs running for the U.S. Senate and I hope you will help me in November...