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...portrays hell's horrors with shrieking, Bosch-like surrealism, but more divine images receive less than medieval veneration. Christ's birth and infancy are treated with the tenderness of an uncle. The artist took his greatest liberties in the borders of his illuminations. There he imitates a grape arbor's lattice in textiles and lacework, borders a saint with pretzels that were originally baked to imitate hands clasped in prayer, in a secular study of commonplace reality...
...trial and error, Kratz and lay leaders of the four congregations worked out an acceptable melding of the different church traditions. The teetotaling Lutherans of St. Matthew's were accustomed to using grape juice instead of wine at their Communion services, and were willing to adopt the other churches' usage of ordinary loaf bread instead of unleavened wafers. The Presbyterians, in turn, agreed to take Communion at the altar rail in stead of in the pew. Both the Methodists and the Presbyterians accepted the phrasing of the Apostles' Creed used at St. Matthew's-Christ descended...
...Alexander the Grape...
...announced the settlement of the U.S.'s 4½-year-old railroad labor dispute, made public U.S.-Soviet moves to cut back production of nuclear-arms materials, told reporters during a tour of the White House Rose Garden that the grape hyacinths there were about the same color as Texas bluebonnets...
When the khedive of Egypt in 1875 put his Suez Canal shares on the market, Britain needed $19 million to outbid other countries. Lionel de Rothschild, sucking on a grape, casually agreed to get the money for his friend Dizzy (Disraeli)-at only 3% interest. The Rothschilds helped to bankroll the empire-building exploits of Cecil Rhodes, and took home a large bundle of stock in the De Beers diamond and gold trust...