Word: paganism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...three thirty in the morning before the commanding presence of an ancient pagan god stood sohdly on the ground, its nose perfectly chiselled and its heavy-set brow looming over the small men at its feet. The Faster Island god, weighing in at around the mass of a small car, was encased in ice and anchored to the ground. Cries of victory and epiphany flooded the night air and the creators, about half a dozen of them, sat on the ground and looked up in exhausted awe. The thing they created was greater than any of them...
...Christmas tree traditionally every year. For any group who wants to put up their own holiday display, like a pagan altar, we provide matching funds," said Olivier A. Manuel '96, co-chair of the Adams House Committee...
Basketball as birth control: the sublimating trajectory of ball to hoop cartooned the urgent, intimate quest of sperm to ovum--and, so to speak, contracepted it. Basketball converted raw adolescent pagan fuel to a useful chastity--that is, to play. For years when I saw teenagers on the court shooting baskets, I would say to myself, "I know what's on your minds, you dirty boys...
...orgasms are liberating, exhausting visits to a land where he is king. ("Robert," she exclaims in postcoital awe, "you're so powerful, it's frightening!") In the age of facetiousness, could any director film this without giggling? Would any actor dare display himself as such a paragon of pagan love...
...Missing" is like St. Paul's trip to Damascus, when the former pagan saw the light and was converted to the truth and to Christianity. In this case, ED Horman goes to Santiago and is converted to liberalism because he sees that his government has betrayed him and the American people. This film details a man's Coming to Consciousness, and as such it is pedantic, ideological, onedimensional and utterly boring...