Word: marian
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...runaway and mushroom picker who stands, often silently, at the center of David Guterson's new novel finds a vision of the Virgin Mary. She also finds Satan, smart alecks and all the screaming spirits of premillennial America crying out to her for salvation. Within days of her first Marian sighting, 5,000 pilgrims are following the ecstasies of what they call Ann of Oregon, Greater Catholic Merchandise Outlet trucks are circling around and timber companies are sending out their p.r. representatives...
...Harvard University's managing council; and, most famously, chairing the New York Public Library, which he helped bring back from financial ruin, along the way restoring Bryant Park, the jewel of greenery behind the library's main building in midtown Manhattan. In his private life, his third marriage, to Marian Sulzberger Dryfoos, of the family that has published the New York Times since 1896, was a true marriage of spirits...
...monks in a Thai temple bow in veneration. In Britain, Beckham and his wife Victoria, the former Posh Spice of the Spice Girls, have replaced Princess Diana as the staple of celebrity culture, adored by young and old, men and women, straight and gay. Last week ace trend spotter Marian Salzman of the advertising agency Euro RCSG Worldwide identified Beckham--who likes to say how comfortable he is with his feminine side and who has been known to wear a sarong--as the epitome of "metrosexuality," which, since you ask, is the characteristic of heterosexual men who spend time...
...monks in a Thai temple bow in veneration. In Britain, Beckham and his wife Victoria, the former Posh Spice of the Spice Girls, have replaced Princess Diana as the staple of celebrity culture, adored by young and old, men and women, straight and gay. Last week ace trend spotter Marian Salzman of the advertising agency Euro RCSG Worldwide identified Beckham - who likes to say how comfortable he is with his feminine side and who has been known to wear a sarong - as the epitome of "metrosexuality," which, since you ask, is the characteristic of heterosexual men who spend time...
...clubs have changed," says Marian Conbeer, the tanned and motherly manager of the Kowloon Cricket Club. "Local people don't need the club in the same way. They've got their own lives, so they pop into the club. But the expats used to come all day, every day. They didn't have anything else. We've lost that?it's just not here anymore...