Word: hems
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cupped Chin. The next blow fell at the home of a near neighbor of the Prime Minister-India's Solicitor General Hem Nath Sanyal. Late one night four men broke into Sanyal's bungalow and choked him to death with a dhoti, or loincloth. Since Sanyal had been pressing corruption charges against several ministers of Orissa state, members of Parliament cried that his murder must be connected with the investigation-though Delhi's police insisted it was only a robbery attempt...
...first it's hard to see why. The story, in which two star-crossed lovers relive an old Cambodian legend, is almost the same as the story of Orpheus. The lovers themselves (Sam El and Narie Hem) are even more beautiful than the lovers in the earlier film-they look like oriental deities sculptured in living flesh. The color is rich and sensuous, and the camera catches dim disturbing glimpses of Angkor Wat, the great stone temple that lies sleeping in the jungles of Cambodia like a monstrous unimaginable spider...
...Tricolor, a snifter of cognac, a flaring hem, a tilted skylight-these have been demoted to secondary symbols of France. The primary symbol is an image of a young man slouching in a cafe chair, his socks sagging over broken shoelaces, his shirt open to the waist, his arms dangling to the floor, where his knuckles drag. A Gauloise rests in his gibbon lips, and its smoke meanders from his attractively broken, Z-shaped nose. Out of the Left Bank by the New Wave, he is Jean-Paul Bel-mondo-the natural son of the Existentialist conception, standing for everything...
...this favor, anyway. Keep them off. For they hem me in from all sides now. They put in my mouth the taste of darkness. They give me queer feelings, they get me all balled...
...born, takes a few agonized breaths, dies unbaptized. What then happens to its soul, uncleansed of original sin? Modern Protestant theologians generally find no basis in Scripture for an opinion, but Roman Catholic catechisms give a quite specific answer. Unbaptized innocents go to limbo (from the Latin word for "hem" or "border"), a fringe of hell where they spend eternity in a state of natural happiness. Published this week is a lively survey of the still unfinished debate over this theological issue, called Limbo: Unsettled Question (Sheed & Ward; $3.95). The author, the Rev. George J. Dyer, is a professor...