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...yellow and white, John Paul II, successor of Peter the Fisherman, traveled to the waterside sanctuary of Our Lady of Lake Togo. To many of the smiling tribesmen who came to greet the white-robed visitor, the omens for the day were auspicious. That morning a 5-ft. python had slithered over a wall in the church compound. A majority of the people in the region are animists who venerate pythons. The incident, early in the Pope's seven-nation tour of Africa, indicated the huge spiritual challenges and opportunities on a continent where Christianity is rapidly winning converts without...
...That, at least, is the counterintuitive experience of Keita Takahashi, the Japanese creator of the offbeat international hit known as Katamari Damacy. The addictive game involves a cosmic prince rolling a sticky ball around a colorful landscape filled with things to pick up; it looks like manga meets Monty Python and sounds like Hello Kitty does hip-hop, and that has everything to do with the creator's inexperience. "I don't play games," he insists. "There are too many unoriginal ones." In 1999 when he took a job as a 3-D artist to pay the bills at game...
Although Monty Python is the first example of British humor to spring to most people’s minds, another much-loved manifestation is Douglas Adams’ “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy,” the ludicrous and endearingly funny story of Arthur Dent, one poor lost Earthling haplessly finding his way through the Universe after escaping the Earth shortly before its destruction to make way for an interstellar bypass...
...peasant crosses the stage with a bale of hay just as a rousing, Fiddler on the Roof-style chorus line points and shouts, "Hey!" Some gags--the choleric knight who gets his arms and legs cut off--worked better onscreen. But Idle's runaway hit musical based on Monty Python and the Holy Grail has a rowdy, anything-goes spirit as well as two memorable numbers: You Won't Succeed on Broadway ("if you don't have any Jews") and the infectious Always Look on the Bright Side of Life. You have to be a Python maniac to place this...
...Silver Plan: Lawyers from Harvard Law School will be to Bechtel as ‘Nam was to Lieutenant Dan, only this time Forrest Gump will be as fast as a member of the Advocate on horse tranquilizer. Can you say “black knight from Monty Python...