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...only must Sheila Bridges inhabit the lifestyle and taste of each of her clients, she must also translate them into chairs, tables and rooms, often while educating her clients along the way. This can mean telling people who are paying her money that some of their stuff is hideous. And it means pulling off some alchemy that joins materials, colors, furniture, walls into a unified whole called home. A place where people she barely knows will feel perfectly comfortable and justifiably proud...
Such a situation would call out to God regardless of the humans involved. But the language of faith is particularly apropos to the Guthries, who inhabit the center of progressive evangelical Christian thought. David is a vice president at Word Music, a Nashville Christian music power. Nancy is a publicist whose clients include inspirational author Max Lucado and Anne Graham Lotz, Billy Graham's preaching daughter. Their reaction to their dilemma--their "Christian witness"--presents a window into modern evangelicalism's approach to questions that obsessed Job's author 2,500 years...
They "seemed to inhabit another world," writes Ben Fong-Torres of the old Top 40 disc jockeys in "The Hits Just Keep on Coming," his history of rock radio. "They gave away cash and prizes on the air, and they presided over sock hops and 'Bandstand'-style shows on local television. They were like Dick Clark. Only they lived in your town...
...have played so many roles and so many personas that I almost feel I have nothing left to give when I come to a project. But working with Hou Hsaio-hsien eclipsed everything. I learned to look at acting in a different way, how to let a character inhabit you, rather than you it. I'm feeling much freer...
...local culture has had it that undertakers are bearers of bad luck, dirty people whose social status ranks somewhere between prostitutes and earthworms. No self-respecting Taiwanese becomes a mortician, so the business of preparing the dead for the afterworld has fallen to the underworld and the gangsters who inhabit...