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...ceremonies of miya-mairi, which correspond to Christian baptisms, are traditionally Shinto, and their funerals are traditionally Buddhist. Now, increasingly, the Japanese are taking to being married in Christian ceremonies. This year 10% of all Japanese marriages are expected to take place in Christian churches-complete with white wedding gown, preacher, organ music and flowers-even though only 1% of Japanese are baptized Christians. At least 36 Protestant chapels in Tokyo cater especially to the "outsiders," but some couples even go to Guam or Hawaii for their ceremonies. The main reason they choose a Christian wedding: "It is so kakko...
...line-up eschewed traditional blues, browns and grays in favor of the baby pinks, brilliant yellows and other bright pastels usually reserved for spring. To top off the show, Smith's 19-year-old sister Doris diddy-bopped out in a 1972 bridal outfit: a strapless white Lurex gown worn with a white fake-fur jacket and a gauzy veil with a feather stuck in the side...
That is the least that could be said. Liza's friends liked coming to her house because they could play dress-up better there than anyplace else in Hollywood?or the world. Their dresses might be miniature versions of costumes from movies, for example a replica of a waltz gown worn by Deborah Kerr in The King...
...just this month, an official inquiry into cruelty at a Lancashire mental hospital described how patients were locked in closets for being "mischievous," how they were half-strangled with wet towels if they became violent, and how one victim had been injured when male nurses filled his dressing-gown pocket with alcohol and then set it afire...
Perhaps I can also say that at times Father Collins felt a bit stifled himself in the task of making this a more effective and workable ministry. I know, for example, no man who has done more to bridge the three hundred year old gap between town and gown in Cambridge, and in the face of all the bad feelings and suspicions that still exist he suffered many frustrations I'm sure...