Word: franciscanism
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...Franciscan Nick O'Demus, 53, who declines to give his real name, drifted into the sexual leather-goods market nine years ago. A sandal maker, O'Demus was asked by a few customers if he could turn out sexual harnesses. "Pretty soon," he says, "word got around about what I could do, and I found myself with a new product line." Now O'Demus and his partner, Frank Morris, 25, employ 18 people at their Trading Post Enterprises, which grosses $500,000 a year from making bondage materials, whips, chains and other devices, mostly for the homosexual trade, and selling...
...same day, two Roman Catholic Franciscan missionaries mysteriously disappeared: Fathers Michael Jerome Cypher, 35, of Medford, Wisc., a parish priest who had been in Honduras only eight months, and Ivan Betancourt, 35, of Colombia. Now a special investigating commission set up as a result of church pressure has reported that they too were victims of the ranchers' rampage. The commission has charged José Manuel Zelaya (a wealthy landowner), the provincial army commander and two accomplices with murdering the priests...
...poem is both about Hopkins' spiritual odyssey and an elegy for five Franciscan nuns who drowned when a German liner struck a sand bar off the Kentish Knock in November 1875. Enderby's film producers shift the story to pre-World War II Germany, add a (pre-vow) affair between one of the nuns and "Father Tom" Hopkins, and lavishly document the rape of the nuns by a congregation...
Involvement in the Arab-Israeli dispute by a cleric is far from unique. Priests of the Armenian Church have worked as agents for both the Israelis and the Arabs; Russian Orthodox clergymen in the Middle East have served as spies for the Soviet Union; even Franciscan monks have been suspected of engaging in intelligence activities for the Arabs. The ease with which clerics can travel across national frontiers makes them especially valuable as operatives. They are often motivated by an intellectual commitment to the cause they serve-and sometimes, alas, by the enormous sums of money they can make. Israeli...
...effect: from one to ten out of every 1,000 people who take phenylbutazone come down with agranulocytosis. The disease can be lethal. Four of the five persons hospitalized thus far for ginseng-related agranulocytosis (three in San Francisco and one in Minneapolis) came close to death; another San Franciscan died...