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...century painting The Garden of Delights is one of the wildest pictures in Western art, but it may have met its match for feverish description in this book's hallucinogenic meditation on it. With cinematic fluency, Williams slips in and out of the painting, riffing on everything from her Mormon upbringing to the survival of the monarch butterfly. Strange and endlessly fascinating, her reflections on Bosch's images of Heaven, Hell and Earth take on the burning urgency of a dream. "Can a painting be a prayer?" she asks. Her answer is yes, prayer. Incantation and benediction...
...Scouts of America headquarters in Irving, Texas, is controlled by another faction in the debate, those for whom "morally straight" definitely means sexually straight. In recent years, members of the Mormon church have become a powerful force within scouting. Today nearly 10% of the members of the Boy Scouts Advisory Council live in Salt Lake City, Utah, home of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The Latter-day Saints constitute less than 2% of the U.S. population but 21% of the boys in the core Boy Scouts program, more than any other group...
...freak out but now I realize it doesn't really matter...even Brad Pitt has tanked before. With Hollywood, it's really a roll of the die. And I'm not really into the whole Hollywood scene. I was raised in a conservative home, I'm Mormon. For me, making the movies is about making friendships. I mean I've become friends with some great guys...I'm still close to the guy who plays Tweeter [from Varsity Blues]. I've just been incredibly lucky...
...accounts, Ford was a devout Mormon and family man who sat down to dinner every night with his wife and his two sons and daughter, who are now in college at Brigham Young University. He taught Sunday school and gave free physicals to Boy Scouts. Hunter Hammill, a Baylor University professor who has known Ford since they were medical residents at UCLA, says Ford was a "boy genius" who not only won awards and patented treatments but also "knew everybody and everybody liked...
Quarterbacked by Steve Young VII in the east, our Mormon comrades will push the Chinese overlords so far downfield they'll be back across the North Pacific in no time. Meanwhile, the descendants of former Federal Express and United Parcel Service agents will swarm every zip code west of Omaha to deliver defeat to the dreaded USPS--overnight guaranteed...