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...priesthood." And his defection would undoubtedly come as a shock to his loyally pious fans, many of whom presumably associate priestly dropouts with apostasy. Unlike many liberals, however, Lyons is following the proper rules for leaving. In his heyday, Lyons was a formidable figure in conservative Catholicism. With Schick Razor King Patrick Frawley, Lyons started Twin Circle in 1967, served as its editor and got Frawley to take over the Register in 1970. He also raised money from conservatives to buy the 77-year-old priests' monthly, Homiletic and Pastoral Review...
...Razor Blades. Nevertheless, as the mathemagician admits, "not all my readers are fans. I have also managed to provoke some outspoken enemies." In the forefront are the credulous victims of Gardner's recent hoaxes: an elaborate treatise that demonstrated the power of pyramid-shaped structures to preserve life and sharpen razor blades, and "proof by a fictional Dr. Matrix that the millionth digit of π-if it were ever computed, would be the number 5. Even angrier are those occultivated believers in extrasensory perception and faith healing. From the beginning of his career, Gardner has been illuminating the dark...
...think that black people have been afraid to get into the Blues. It's just that there's a stigma attached to the Blues: down South, black, dark, ignorant, illegitimate children, hookers, gamblers, killers, knifers, razor blades, Ma Dixon's Douche Powder....A lot of people see different kinds of music individually because they don't understand the stream from where it all comes from...
...head as far as a "respectable" art dealer in Basel, Switzerland, but it was never returned to the church. Such theft, in his view, is an outgrowth of "the stupendous hyping of art as a blue-chip investment." Not only has promotion made art a prime target for razor-wielding burglars, Hughes argues: "It has also made it impossible for most people under 35 to have an aesthetic experience without considering the price of the works they are looking...
Alone or in clusters, attackers bear down on him at breakneck speed, their razor-sharp blades ripping into the white ice. From any angle, in the open or from behind a screen of players, a shooter fires and the rock-hard puck hums toward the goalie at more than 100 m.p.h. He has less than a second to react. If he fails, there is no reprieve: the goalie is the last line of defense, the difference between winning and losing...