Word: grahamism
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...Roman Catholic Church in my adolescence. But I never had a convert's zeal. I never acquired that instinctive deep structure, that internal universe, that is installed in the cradle Catholic from the start -- the spiritual DNA. Half in the church, half out, a kid who read too much Graham Greene and Thomas Merton, I embraced, it may be, the surface things: the brocaded rituals, the Latin Mass of those days, the rich atmospheres...
They also engage in that most honorable and despised form of wordsmanship, the pun. The gooey remains of an ancient Egyptian are "guaca-mummy." A vampirish hospital worker is called "Nurse Feratu." Acolytes cavorting in worship to a Japanese monster are "the Mothra Graham Dance Troupe...
...America Online, the nation's fastest-growing computer-online service. AOL subscribers can use computer message boards to exchange comments about stories in the magazine with TIME writers and editors as well as with one another. TIME Online has also brought in such public figures as the Rev. Billy Graham and New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani to hold electronic "town halls...
...really good tune-up for us," Graham said. "We competed really hard, and we also got a chance to see what we should work...
...Colin Graham's production, which will be telecast nationally over PBS on Oct. 17, is simple but handsome, relying on mirrors and projections to make its effects. Notable performances by the mostly American cast include Renee Fleming's poignant Tourvel, Mary Mills' tender Cecile (the 15-year-old girl "ruined" by Valmont's depredations) and Johanna Meier's stately Madame de Rosemonde, Valmont's doting aunt. In the pit, Scottish-born Donald Runnicles leads with authority...