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...show has evolved during its existence and now consists of a life-sized human puppet, which Blue stands behind and speaks through, singing his own versions of popular songs and commenting about onlookers as they chance by. “No, I’m not your God,” Newell says to a passer-by who reacted to the sight of the speaking man-sized creation with a shocked “my God!” “I’m lots of things, but your God is not one of them...
...broad brush strokes, the 18th-century painting “Tormented Lovers” adopts the artistic style of its contemporaries, but maintains an attention to detail and a religious interpretation consistent with older versions of the tale: Majnun’s imminent beheading suggests both submission to God and “loss of reason,” according to an accompanying plaque. The painting calls for the story to be read metaphorically. “Majnun with Gazelle” portrays a modestly dressed Majnun engrossed in the Koran, suggesting that students concentrate on their religious studies. Expanding...
...idea of these people as individuals and their relationships because the play, more than anything else, explores the idea of communicating, of how effectively communicating can act as salvation—communication coming in to save the day when all else fails, when your own faculties fail. Oh God, I do sound pretentious… It’s, I guess, not just pretending like we’re the first people to do that on stage, but rather staying away from the idea of this being a play about ideas."Flynn hopes that the sum of her efforts will...
...Worse, if a dictator in some god-forsaken part of the world captures an American soldier, the U.S. may protest. But it is the Red Cross's assertions of a violation that will be the immediate point of pressure on the captors. "What it virtually guaranteed is that dictatorships will cite the U.S. government's own arguments to defend themselves and that will make it harder for the ICRC and everyone else to condemn and shame those governments," says Tom Malinowski, a spokesman for Human Rights Watch...
...Anna Galvao, whom Pope Benedict XVI canonized last December. Galvao, who died in 1822 (he was on the slow track) was a Franciscan monk in Sao Paolo who distributed "pills" that were actually folded bits of rice paper bearing the prayer: "After birth, the Virgin remained intact. Mother of God, intercede on our behalf." Believers swallowed them for various ailments. After Galvao's death, nuns in his monastery took up the pill production. According to England's Daily Telegraph, as his cause for sainthood began picking up steam, they were up to 10,000 pills a day. The Telegraph reported...