Word: fundamentalistism
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...made only $190,000; the prices of Old Silverwig's work have been going downhill like a runaway bobsled. The true mystery is who on earth could have actually wanted to own a 31-ft. pastiche of Leonardo's Last Supper overlaid with green camouflage patterns. Is some Christian fundamentalist group planning to open a restaurant...
Ingram was the chief civil deputy of the county sheriff's department and chairman of the local Republican Party. He was also a religious Fundamentalist. With great earnestness he told investigators -- his fellow officers -- that although he knew his children did not lie, he couldn't remember any episodes of abuse. The associate pastor of his small religious sect urged him to let go, to remember what he was repressing. God wouldn't let him remember falsely, the pastor said...
...peace process was dealt another possible blow on April 6 and 7. In two separate Palestinian terrorist acts in the Israeli cities of Afula and Ashdod, eight Israelis were killed and 48 injured-bringing the number of Israelis killed by Palestinians since last September 13 to 38. The Palestinian fundamentalist group Hamas claimed responsibility for the Afula attack, and declared that four more attacks would be forthcoming, including one tomorrow, on Israel's Independence Day, that would "turn your independence day into hell...
...videotaped 1994 confession that TIME was able to view in Istanbul, Mehmet Ali Bilici, a militant Turkish fundamentalist, described his terrorist training at an Iranian camp near Qum. He said he and other trainees received basic military instruction, followed by courses in intelligence-trade craft, coded communications, explosives and covert operations, and acknowledged that he received "direct orders" from the Iranians to conduct "military operations on Turkish soil." Bilici has admitted to kidnapping two Iranian opposition figures who were turned over to VEVAK agents and later killed...
This gut reaction to scripture is a deft stroke of literary subversion. It should not draw a Fundamentalist fatwa, though beef lobbyists and overweight- pride groups may grumble about the ceaseless bashing of carnivores and the amply proportioned. Theroux's main dodge is to see American puritanism in a frankly physical rather than spiritual light. Readers may take this sleight to heart or turn it into a belly laugh. Either way, the sorcerer and his apprentice encounter a nation with more than its share of knaves and hypocrites, including the Reverend Huber, a stock evangelist huckster, and Mr. Phyllis, cooing...