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...cast their ballots. In the departmental capital of San Miguel, Father Theodore Hesburgh, president of the University of Notre Dame and a U.S. observer, happened upon a funeral cortege. A mother was burying her soldier son, whose face had been sliced away by a guerrilla machete. There was no priest there, so Hesburgh offered the last rites. And to the mother, who was going to vote, he presented a rosary given him by the Pope...
...guerrillas learned that he was a distant relative of the mansion's owner. Others say that he was shot because he refused to open the door, or because the rebels wanted him for something he had done in another village. "It was an accident," insists the village priest, Father Sebastián. But no one really knows. All that remains is three small holes in a door...
Like father, like son? The question barely survives the interruptions from the author's richly mordant characters: Dutch's lover, Judge Martha Sweeney, who kept her virginity until she was 31 and wears a .38 under her judicial robes; Father Hugh Campion, a "celebrity priest" who won $100,000 on a quiz show and went on to star in Father Hugh's Kitchen, "the highest-rated cooking program on the air"; Private Detective Marty Cagney ("Discreetly determining what was done-where & with whom"), who compiles the adulterous dirt on Dutch's exwife; Cagney's daughter...
...themselves, become two-dimensional, walking enigmas. The role of Laura, the beautiful go-between, demands a constant aura of intensity from actress Laura Morante. But the part written as a never-relaxing alternation between grief and sexual passion, vctimizes her with its unplayability. Victor Cavallo as Adelfo, the worker-priest who feeds the pigs, also suffers from the flat script, which forces him to stay calm and distanced, his religious acceptance erecting a rigid, unbroken stoicism to block him from the audience. With such starkness, Bertolucci may be striving to create a modern morality play, but he has certainly...
DIED. Charles ("Zip") Finn, 104, oldest Roman Catholic priest in the U.S. and first chaplain of the Catholic Club at Harvard University; in Boston...