Word: mormonized
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...agitprop and Scripture. It follows two New York City couples: Prior Walter (Justin Kirk), who is sick with AIDS, and his lover Louis Ironson (Ben Shenkman), who abandons Prior, unable to cope with his illness; and Joe and Harper Pitt (Patrick Wilson and Mary-Louise Parker), a closeted gay Mormon lawyer and his disturbed, pill-popping wife. Around them orbit historical and mythological figures: Roy Cohn (Al Pacino), the diabolical former aide to Senator Joseph McCarthy who is gay, closeted and stricken with AIDS; the ghost of Ethel Rosenberg (Meryl Streep), whom Cohn, by pulling strings, got executed for treason...
Though Payne may still be a lowly student, his maturity is without question. After spending his freshman year of college at MCC in Arizona, Payne spent the next two years in Uruguay on a Mormon mission...
It’s more or less the typical Harvard story. You’ve heard it many times by now—student spends one year at Mesa Community College, two years in Uruguay on a Mormon mission, one more year at MCC, transfers to Harvard junior year, marries during summer between junior and senior year...
...only comfort for Democrats is that out-of-power parties won big in the 2002 governors races, leading to such bizarre spectacles as Democrats taking the governor's mansions in Wyoming and Oklahoma while Massachusetts elected a Mormon Republican businessman as governor. The Fletcher and Barbour victories were part of a troubling wave for fiscally-challenged governors...
...false Magdalenes are removed. But it fulfills a deep narrative expectation: for the alpha male to take a mate, for a yin to Jesus' yang or, as some neopagans have suggested, for a goddess to his god. Martin Luther believed that Jesus and Magdalene were married, as did Mormon patriarch Brigham Young...