Word: leprously
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...graphic sex, for there is none, but from the pristine virtuosity of Haynes' craft. In three interlocking stories inspired by Jean Genet, this homoerotic Intolerance details the . toxicity of prejudice, fear and disease, as played out in a tumid hothouse of forbidden sexual longing. A scientist who turns leprous when he drinks a sex potion; a prisoner who finds brief orgasmic release, and pays for it; a child who kills his abusive father -- all are outcasts, poison to society. Only the child escapes, jumping from a window and soaring into his idea of heaven: oblivion...
...systole and diastole between innovation and tradition. Particularly in the 1950s and '60s, Italian artists had a way of talking raw but painting cooked. In the early '50s, when Alberto Burri began to exhibit his paintings assembled from torn sacks and burnt strips of wood, they looked as leprous as Dubuffets. Today they seem tender, full of regard for discarded things, and about as threatening as sunlight on an old wall; one realizes this was always part of their intent. Even the Italian artists dealing with popular imagery in the early '60s, like Mimmo Rotella, lack the bluntness of their...
...were receiving. We were looking for someone to teach us out of the Bible." The Rev. W.A. Criswell of Dallas, 76, the leonine patriarch of the Southern Baptists' insurgent Fundamentalist wing and pastor of their largest congregation, charges that liberal theology "empties the churches. Wherever liberalism places its leprous hand, there is death...
...leprous man, he is unclean," says Chapter 13 of Leviticus...
...Recently, however, doctors have noticed an alarming increase in the number of cases resistant to dapsone. The most promising therapy would use several drugs in combination so that patients would not develop a resistance to any one medication. The antibiotic rifampin, a leading antituberculosis drug, has proved effective, healing leprous skin lesions four times as fast as dapsone. Unfortunately, it can cause flulike side effects, and a year's supply may cost $600. The annual bill for dapsone is about...