Word: priests
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bleak altar half hidden by incense smoke holds down the front of the stage. Shaman figures appear, chanting to a kind of voodoo drumbeat. On the altar, the body of a child is laid. The darkness is pierced by a primal scream. A priest plunges his hand into the human sacrifice and lifts out the heart, thrusting it, like a savage challenge, toward the civilized middle-class audience at Minneapolis' Tyrone Guthrie Theater...
...whom are on welfare, must promise in advance not only to pay $18 a month but also to attend monthly P.T.A. meetings and weekly Mass-even though less than half of them are Catholic. "This is a Catholic school first, not a community school," declares the black parish priest, the Rev. George Clements. "We want them to set an example for their children, and we want non-Catholic parents to understand what their children are learning in school...
...John, the Night Tripper, high priest of voodoo rock, whose music is often eerily grisly and whose personal appearances are usually heralded by the lighting of torches and a processional of undulating dancers. His gaudy, African-style headdresses are woven out of ostrich feathers, vines, ivy and snakeskins. Dr. John's music is a pulsating blend of African and Caribbean rhythms and dry-throated incantations. As it turns out, Dr. John comes from New Orleans, and his latest ATCO LP, Gumbo, is a personal nostalgia trip, a rollicking pastiche of voodoo, rumba, Dixieland and good old Mardi Gras stomp...
There is Hubert Humphrey, "a Renaissance priest of the Vatican who could not even cross a marble floor without pieties issuing from his skirt." Ed Muskie, "a gentleman of the frontier out of the 19th century," ignominiously boxed between the new politics and the press. "Nobody," adds Mailer, "forgives a favorite who loses by seven lengths...
...Vitelloni, made 20 years ago and still far more immediate. A long fantasy about an ecclesiastical fashion show had its far more effective beginnings in La Dolce Vita, when Anita Ekberg galloped up to the dome of St. Peter's dressed in a parody of a priest's outfit. Fellini even teases us by reprising a melody from La Dolce Vita as the clergy parade in their outré regalia...