Word: mysticism
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...film festival triggers a renewal of faith in film. Optimism surges with the spring; hope springs vernal. This is where the seeds are planted in a garden of film that will bloom for the rest of the year. This is where Pulp Fiction, L.A. Confidential, The Pianist, Mystic River, Fahrenheit 9/11 and many other Oscar winners were first seen. Film is our religion, and Cannes marks the beginning of our liturgical calendar...
Spanglish's PAZ VEGA will play the mystic feminist saint in Teresa. The real saint entered a convent at 20, so don't look for Adam Sandler to play a big role...
...Mondays in July and August, local writers such as Dennis Lehane (of “Mystic River” fame) will hold readings of their latest works at City Hall Plaza...
...himself last year. Another episode deals with the daughter of Leo Ryan, the California Congressman whose investigation of the Jim Jones cult in Guyana in 1978 led to Ryan's murder and the ensuing mass suicides. Today Ryan's daughter is a follower of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, an Indian mystic whose armed compound in Oregon has attracted national headlines...
...Both the mystic and the real world are exhibited in the Bradbury Science Museum. It is about the size of Kawamoto's Peace Museum, and it too tells the story of an event and its consequences. Exhibits are arranged to indicate causalities. Einstein's letter to F.D.R. is located on a wall below a newspaper headline of the times: GERMANY ANNEXES AUSTRIA. There is a letter from Groves to Oppenheimer, requesting that Oppenheimer avoid flying in airplanes: "The time saved is not worth the risk." A photograph shows the July 16, 1945, Trinity test explosion at Alamogordo, looking like...