Word: moone
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Brother Sun, Sister Moon covers only a short period of the saint's life; his return from the war between Assisi and the rival town of Perugia, his subsequent illness and conversion, the rebuilding of the ruined church of San Damiano, and his trip to Rome to seek advice from Pope Innocent III. Given this limited time-span and the painstaking efforts Zeffirelli makes to focus on the reasons for Francis's conduct, he explains astonishingly little of what was happening in twelfth-century Italy, both according to historical fact and to his own fiction. The war could...
...country-side is understandable, but the voice of British pop star Donovan singing limp lyrics as Francis romps his way through masses of poppies and fields of grain turns the story into a musical tour de farce. St. Francis's own documented hymns to his "brother sun and sister moon" bespeak a pious, almost pagan Christianity, inspired by the ballads of the troubadours he heard throughout his youth. Donovan's tunes tinkle with the stilted sounds of AM radio...
...weapons for the triumphant Allies, but also compounded the miracle of modern medicine, discovered among other wonders the mechanism of heredity, and not incidentally helped give America a material standard of living higher than any in history. More recently, they capped their achievements by landing men on the moon. Indeed, such was their success that many people became convinced that there were scientific or technological "fixes" for all the nation's problems, including its most serious social ills. Even as late as 1967, after Watts, Newark and Detroit had been engulfed in flames, the dean of M.I.T...
...days of air strikes, performed at the request of the Royal Laotion government, were aimed at North Vietnames and Pathet Lao forces on the Plain of Jars, an area that has been bombed so much observers say it looks like the craters of the moon...
...Whitney, comes to the liner to see off his boss and the evangelist-turned-torch singer, Reno Sweeney. Finding that Hope Harcourt, the love of his life, is aboard ship, Billy decides to travel, too. When Moonface Martin, travelling with submachine gun in violin case as the Reverend Doctor Moon, provides Billy with a ticket and berth, more problems are created than solved. The ticket belonged to Public Enemy Number 1, who never showed for the voyage; now everyone is chasing after Billy, who becomes sailor, chef and old woman to escape arrest. In between costume changes, he tries...