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...lapsed Episcopalian, spent seven weeks taking Catholic instruction from Paulist priests. For one location scene in Sicily, he performed a Communion rite for 300 extras. Recalls Reeve: "My mother said, 'Call me if you convert.' That didn't happen, but I developed enormous respect for the ritual I was performing." Does this mean he has put away childish things like playing comic-book characters? Lois Lane and other fans of Krypton's finest surviving hunk can relax. Reeve will shortly pull on his red-and-blue undies and rev his wires for takeoff in Superman...
Both the Baptist minister in Chicago and PTL's Bakker feel concern for their congregations. But PTL traps its audience in a Pavlovian circle of wealth coupled to religion, a ritual of cash register bell-ringing. Like commercial television, it inflames material appetites and arouses expectations, rather than hopes. Facing no adversity as persistent as graffiti blackly spattered, its viewers can have faith that God provides for believers. As a result, there is no reason to care for the truly needy beyond one's small circle of friends. To clutch a phonebook and express passionate concern for those listed...
...thing since tomatoes* has been the pasta machine, manual (around $40) or electric ($250). American Best Coffee, Inc., which added a single pasta machine to its line of espresso machines in 1977, now sells 24 models, ranging in price from $500 to $70,000. Still, many purists prefer the ritual of making pasta fresca, fatt'a mano (freshly made by hand). At classes like the one taught by Arlene Battifarano at Manhattan's New School, flour-smeared students happily echo, "Fold, push, press, turn! Fold, push, press, turn!" as they attack alps of dough. Says Expert Marcella Hazan...
...want to run the Marathon." Joanne said wistfully to me yesterday as we headed out for out daily four-mile run-a ritual we have followed semi-faithfully, since the spring of freshman year...
Well, this afternoon. I'll be meeting my friends as the Red Sox open at Fenway. It's a ritual I've performed since 1977, when I first moved to the Boston area and the Red Sox replaced my seventh-grade idols, the Oakland...