Word: nicodemus
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...Zeffirelli stuffed his cast with stars of varying aptness: Laurence Olivier rolling his eyes as Nicodemus, Rod Steiger spuming as Pilate, Ernest Borgnine in the John Wayne role. Olivia Hussey, less than a decade after Zeffirelli's "Romeo and Juliet," is Jesus' mother (another movie where the actors playing the son is older, here by seven years, than the actress playing his mother). Anne Bancroft is Magdalene - the casting director must have mixed up the two Marys...
...Secret of NIMH" was one of my favorite movies. It was the kind of film that my brother, sister and I rented so many times from the video store that we might as well have bought it. Actually if I had followed the advice of Nicodemus and his wise band of rats, I would have run away from NIMH, not toward it. Literal lab rats, Nicodemus and company, were the tortured subjects of the cold, calculating scientists of NIMH. My siblings and I applauded their valiant escape from NIMH's fearsome clutches...
...neuro- or cogneuro- scientist, I'm trying to sort out not only what it means to think, but from what vantage point I can investigate thinking in the most clear-sighted--or should I say clear-minded--way. This is not an effort very different from that of Nicodemus and his heroic troops. The rats of NIMH caution us that it is sometimes in the search for what makes us greatest--in this case, civilization and wisdom--that we become more estranged rather than closer to what makes...
...Nicodemus looked up the highway and shook his head. There was a long way to go. "If we ever make Des Moines, the television would show him once, and they wouldn't let him off. They'd keep him on for 36 straight hours. The election would be over right there. Instead, look where we are. On foot. And we don't even have anything...
...mentioned that Bradley, by refusing to discuss Christ on television, was not posing as an interpreter of God's design, as are so many others. But in the crowd following Christ, Nicodemus, a mortal who thrives on suspicions, said, "If Bradley won't even mention the name, could he be denying Christ? Let me see him get away with that...