Word: rite
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Instead, Catholics and "certain Protestant Fundamentalists" have been poaching souls on what the Orthodox Church considers its own turf. The primates are especially upset that Pope John Paul II named five bishops in the former Soviet Union without consulting Russian Orthodox leaders. Bitter disputes have also erupted with Eastern Rite Catholics, notably in Ukraine and Romania...
America has always had a gun culture. Now gun violence has metastasized in a new way among the young. The gun becomes neighborhood logic, rite of passage, administrator, avenger, instrument of impulse and rough justice. When guns reach critical mass, they take on a malignant life of their...
...academy. There are six immobile figures: one standing with her chemise hiked up as though getting ready for a medical inspection; the other five sitting in postures of frozen relaxation on the big plum-colored sofas. Madame presides in her lilac dress, like a weary priestess at a rite. The self-conscious geometry of the poses, dominated by the black angular legs of the girl in the foreground, reinforces the plush silence...
...think your crimes are limited to humanity, just ask the ozone layer, the rivers, the streams, the oceans, the land." I guess Jews have worse body odor and all that extra deodorant has ripped a whole in the atmosphere above Greenland. I'll have to start buying extra strength Rite Guard...
...Rite of Spring--by Bob Pilkington and the Berklee Jazz Composition Dept. Berklee Performance Center, 136 Mass Ave., Boston. Thursday, Feb. 27, 8:15 p.m. $4;$I for seniors...