Word: jesus
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...James Jesus Angleton was an enigma. With his horn-rimmed glasses, homburg hats and foppish manners, he looked more like a Cambridge don than an American , spy hunter. Yet the Idaho-born Yale graduate, who joined the Central Intelligence Agency after a wartime stint in the Office of Strategic Services, had a flair for global intrigue and office politics that propelled him into the CIA's upper echelons. During his 20-year tenure as head of counterintelligence at the height of the cold war, Angleton hamstrung the agency with a paranoiac mole hunt that led him to ignore crucial leads...
...generation ago, the Bible society produced another simplified version, the Good News Bible (113 million Bibles and Testaments in print); the 1991 Bible is even less highbrow. In Today's Family Bible, for example, angels proclaim Jesus' birth by saying, "Praise God in heaven! Peace on earth to everyone who pleases God." The Lord's Prayer runs, "Our Father in heaven, help us to honor your name. Come and set up your kingdom...
...birth to a womanly thing, who gives birth to a quivering messiah thing; then the local villager things ravage and bury them, and the earth renews itself on their corpses. It is as if a druidical cult had re-enacted, for real, three Bible stories -- creation, the Nativity and Jesus' torture and death on Golgotha -- and some demented genius were there to film it. No names, no dialogue, no compromises, no exit. No apologies either, for Begotten is a spectacular one- of-a-kind (you wouldn't want there to be two), filmed in speckled chiaroscuro so that each image...
...steered his car through a suburban intersection last August, Ramiro de Jesus Rodriguez collided with a parent's worst nightmare: when his car hit an oncoming van, his daughter, three-year-old Veronica, pitched from her mother's arms into the windshield, suffering fatal head injuries. Last week the grieving father came before a Miami court, charged with vehicular homicide for failing to strap his child into a safety seat. The case against Rodriguez was so wrenching and his tale so sad that many potential jurors expressed outrage that he was even being put on trial...
...older art were adapted to the artists' ends. Thus the motif of Moses leading the Exodus becomes Bingham's image of Daniel Boone escorting settlers through the Cumberland Gap toward the promised land; thus the buckskin-clad immigrant and his family are consciously meant to evoke Joseph, Mary and Jesus on the flight into Egypt. The religious imagery sometimes amounts to a suffocating pietism, but that was America too. It still...