Word: jesus
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...look like Joe Mantegna than Joe Montana out there when you're surrounded by meatballs, and the polite sports term for the situation in both San Diego and Indianapolis is "rebuilding." And so, revealing the most compelling evidence of an afterlife since true believers saw the image of Jesus on a tortilla, the scheduling gods gave both the Chargers and the Colts a break Oct. 4 by having them play teams they had a prayer against--each other...
After the speeches, a line formed at the single microphone in the center aisle as audience members asked whether the speakers' arguments for the existence of God can be used as arguments for the existence of UFOs, and where Jesus got his y-chromosome if his mother was a virgin...
...north of Rio, the city of Salvador da Bahia, which will be celebrating its 450th birthday, promises to have the country's most sizzling street party. For the Bom Jesus dos Navegantes celebration, which honors sailors, thousands of boats with banners aflutter will fill the harbor. Along the ancient cobblestone avenues and more modern thoroughfares, trios eletricos, samba-reggae bands on trucks with eardrum-shattering loudspeakers, will play. Barefoot, bare-chested youths in white cotton trousers will perform the traditional capoeira, a carefully choreographed martial art dating back to slavery that combines somersaults and kickboxing and prohibits contact with...
...going to tell you an old and familiar story," a character announces at the outset. "No tricks up our sleeve." Well, maybe a few tricks: the play transposes the Gospel to 1950s and '60s Texas, where the Jesus figure (called Joshua) is a misfit at Pontius Pilate High and has his first gay experience when Judas accosts him in the bathroom during the senior prom. Yet the play has no explicit sex (and very little implicit) and no cheap lampooning of the Greatest Story Ever Told. Indeed, Corpus Christi is a serious, even reverent retelling of the Christ story...
When word leaked out last spring that off-Broadway's Manhattan Theatre Club was planning to stage a play in which Jesus and his apostles are portrayed as modern-day gay men, Catholic groups raised a fuss. The theater's management, fearful because of some anonymous death threats, abruptly canceled the production--and then, after First Amendment advocates and a prominent chunk of the theater community protested, reversed itself, hiring a private security firm to supplement New York City cops to guard against violence. Is this any way to get people to come to your play...