Word: priestly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Priests are inarguably in short supply now--by some estimates there are 2,000 parishes (out of a U.S. total of 19,723) without a resident priest--and the dearth, barring a miracle, will get worse. The number of U.S. Catholics has grown 15% over the past 10 years and stands at just over 60 million. Contributing to this number is the massive immigration of predominantly Catholic Hispanics. Today roughly one-third of the American Catholic population is Hispanic, and that portion will continue to grow. Some Los Angeles parishes in or near Hispanic sections must now schedule...
...high-end, abstract-thinking machines, keen on contemporary social issues but able to make his interests drive book and ticket sales. That pejorative expression that has so much currency--"obviously written with a movie in mind"--requires qualification when applied to Crichton. "I think of Michael as the high priest of high concept," says Spielberg. All right, concept: Island. Theme park. Dinosaurs. Adults swallowed whole. Kids in peril. Easy. But who said the author had to give us the history of computers along with it? And chaos theory? Fractal vs. Euclidean geometry? And the workings of a Stegosaurus gizzard...
...spending bowlers. He's a man with a mission. "It's going to take me a lot of years, maybe more than I have,'' he says. "But I think I can change the image of bowling a hell of a lot.'' And maybe in the process, as a local priest prayed at the stadium's opening ceremonies, make "this Big gest Little City become the bowling capital of the nation and the world.'' An auspicious sign: the invocation was delivered by Father Robert Bowling...
...especially true of Bradley, who reportedly was having trouble raising money even for a Senate bid and whose moves last week had a distinctly extemporaneous feel to them. Nor would his personal style or inclination toward scholarly disquisitions on Third World debt lend themselves to his becoming the high priest of a political movement a la Perot. "He's a man who disdains sound bites. He resists making complex things simple," says Ross K. Baker, a political scientist at Rutgers University...
...Michael persuades the D.A.'s office to let him try the case. His superiors, of course, know nothing about his lifelong friendship with the defendants, and Michael does not tell them he plans intentionally to lose the case. Which he does, with the crucial help of a Roman Catholic priest from the old neighborhood, who perjures himself on the witness stand and provides an alibi for Tommy and John on the night of the murder...