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...logo fades, the crowd recites the utterly inappropriate prologue to Star Wars: "A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away." Poor normal Brad is greeted with the same scatological taunt every time his name is mentioned; poor virginal Janet is "Slut!" Brad cannot slap a desk, or Frank snap his surgical gloves, without the faithful's perfectly timed handclap. The portentous pauses in Rocky cry out for rude interpolations, so that the screen actors at times seem to be responding to directions from the audience. Before Frank can introduce his assistant Magenta, the crowd bleats, "What's your...
...voters wanted. One answer came as a rude surprise. "Fairness," a favorite party theme in the 1982 and 1984 elections, was a turnoff to most of the 5,500 voters polled, 90% of whom identified themselves as middle class. "They see it as a code word meaning giveaway," said Frank O'Brien, a fund raiser for the D.N.C. "To them, fairness means not me but some other...
Though no one expected Hermaniuk's suggestion to be endorsed by the synod, the fact that it was even voiced underscored the frank atmosphere of the session. So did speeches by two archbishops who asked that the church rethink its ban on Communion for divorced Catholics who remarry. Pope John Paul helped establish the synod's forthright mood with an opening homily that avoided touching on specific issues; it seemed clear to Vatican observers that the Pope was presenting the synod participants with a blank page on which to express their thoughts freely. Godfried Cardinal Danneels of Belgium...
...really have written a poem that is so, well, mediocre? "This is a really bad poem, a piece of doggerel," says David M. Bevington, professor of English at the University of Chicago. "The poem itself does not sound much like Shakespeare to me," says Princeton's Alvin B. Kernan. Frank Kermode of Columbia is even harsher. "This is a very silly affair," he says. "True, Shakespeare wrote some bad poems, but the way this one is bad is not similar in any fashion to the way Shakespeare was bad. The whole thing is a mess...
...holiest ghost at Notre Dame, Knute Rockne, used to say, "One loss is good for the soul. Too many losses are not good for the coach." His reverent descendant, Frank Leahy, preached, "Prayers work better when the players are big." Their Protestant successor, Ara Parseghian, came to believe, "Notre Dame fans are bottom-line people." Next to Gerry Faust, these were all football coaches of little faith...