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...movie has all these things and plenty more. It has Color by Deluxe, some charmingly scummy urbs and suburbs, a hilarious "sitdown orgy for 40," and a bunch of top bananas: Phil Silvers cast as a pious pimp who combines worship and whoreship, Jack Gilford playing a collector of "erotic pottery," the late Buster Keaton doing a deadpan dad with a somewhat unusual problem: "My daughter is a eunuch...
Austerely contemporary in sound, Penderecki's two-hour oratorio draws on a wide musical spectrum ranging from pious Gregorian chants to the dry linearity of the twelve-tone school. In a fresh departure from the Passions of Bach and Telemann, his chorus participates as well as comments, punctuating Christ's ascent to Calvary with hisses, shouts and mocking laughter, while the music quavers and sighs in sympathetic counterpoint. With the lean, clean strokes of a fencer, Penderecki slices to the heart of the Passion, revealing through the intolerance shown to one man the tragedy...
...refugees. Catholicism knows this, and it presents a power structure that makes it not only difficult to question the divine nature of the Church but dangerous as well. As a Protestant, I have often wanted this assurance. But each effort to converse with a priest has ended with the pious chant: "You lack faith...
...consultant to some 90 New York Stock Exchange member firms, I have a high respect for Merrill Lynch's professional capabilities, but I find its pious, holier-than-thou preaching about commissions and mutual funds somewhat less than candid. Also, I might point out that it has risen from 60th place to third place among underwriters without any compunctions about acting on behalf of trusts and corporations as a dealer of large secondary distributions, where the commissions to the salesmen are five times as large as for normal brokerage. Isn't the customer entitled to be told when...
...used to long and lonely meditations. Still another prison saint was Dick Rogers, a former British soldier. An alcoholic, he proved to be virtually the only man who could be trusted to guard the communal food store without stealing anything for himself. Nonetheless, writes Gilkey, "Many a pious diner, whose ration of food depended on Dick's strength of character, still thought of him as immoral because he drank...