Word: religion
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BASEBALL is a religion. At least, that's what the makers of Bull Durham wanted this summer's movie audience to think. But there is nothing religious about a movie, billed as the best baseball film ever, that starts out talking baseball and finishes up talking about the birds and the bees. Bull Durham was more concerned about Kevin Costner and Susan Sarandon making love in a bathtub and then in the kitchen and then back to the bedroom. That's religious. But not in the religion of baseball...
John Sayles' Eight Men Out, Hollywood's newest entry in the baseball-movie line-up, however, tells a different story. To Sayles, the national pastime is the purest religion in the world. And when certain people distort this religion, America's greatest sport loses its innocence...
...this conspiring occurs at a time when baseball was Chicago's only religion. When kids would worship the hitting of "Shoeless" Joe Jackson (D.B. Sweeney) or the sparkling fielding of Buck Weaver (John Cusack) and Hap Felsch (Charlie Sheen). What Sayles tries to create in Eight Men Out is a struggle between the innocence of baseball and the outside forces that try to smear baseball's image. Such a struggle leads to tragic consequences...
Rachel McDermott, a Ph.D candidate in Religion, will depart on October 1 for Calcutta, India, in the hope of improving Western scholarship on the Bengali goddess, Kali. McDermott said that her investigation will consist of studying the Bengali poetic tradition, especially during the 19th-century, devoted to this deity...
...have those in Switzerland. There was endless babble about "freedom" at the Republican Convention. But freedom doesn't mean reciting a loyalty oath on command. They have that kind of freedom in the U.S.S.R. American freedom means the right not to recite a loyalty oath if -- for reasons of religion, politics or simple perversity -- you don't want to. Bush may reject this vision of American freedom, although it is shared by the Supreme Court. That is his privilege: it's a free country. It is not his privilege to imply that anyone who disagrees with him is unpatriotic...