Word: priesting
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...bride's family. Since this was a refugee camp, though, and personal survival, never mind personal wealth, was hard to come by, the bridal price was below market: one cow, payable in some distant future when Rwandan Hutu would have cows and land to graze them on. A Catholic priest presided over the ceremony, attended by the other refugees from Havamungo's Rwankogoto village and sealed in the eyes of the community by the Bourgemeister, who wished them bountiful loins and strong children...
...both entertain and charm the audience. In fact it is in She Done Him Wrong that West coins one of cinema's most famous quotes to date, "Why don't you come up and see me some time?" It is after meeting and becoming immediately smitten with the priest from the next door mission that West utters these infamous words. This seems to be the first time that a man has not instantly fallen in love with Lou, which is what makes her find him irresistible. Unable to leave any man unturned, Lou propositions the priest for a little something...
...Although West spends the duration of the film trifling with the hearts of her male fan club, she ends up epitomizing the hooker with a heart of gold. After finding out that the next door priest, played by Cary Grant, is really just a "fast talking Dick" working undercover to bust her dance hall's prostitution ring, Lou's diamond exterior cracks. No longer is she a vision of unattainable richness, but rather she turns out to be a simple girl who only wants to stop looking for love in all the wrong places...
...Marisleysis, surrogate of the Drowned Madonna, back from the hospital where the stress has sent her, works the barricades now, distributing cups of cool drink to the people in the way that a priest distributes communion. And they take the cups from her hand as from a saint...
...come a long way since 1600, when Giordano Bruno, a defrocked priest from Naples, was burned at the stake for espousing, among other things, his belief that there might be other worlds and other life-forms beyond Earth. In our Star Trekking age, it's now almost heretical not to believe in extraterrestrial life--a belief that will surely be fortified by last week's announcement of the discovery of two Saturn-size planets around two distant stars...