Word: sacraments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wouldn't adore a guy whose most devoted fans don purple robes and dub themselves Monk's Monks? For the Redskins' Art Monk, who has become the N.F.L.'s all-time leading receiver, pass catching has for 13 seasons been a Sunday sacrament of sorts, signifying his grace and steady devotion to his craft. Usually cloistered within his thoughts, Monk, 35, opened up a bit after reeling in the record-setting 820th against the Broncos. "I feel blessed," he admitted " -- and glad it's over." So was his quarterback, Mark Rypien, who tossed his pal Monk three straight passes...
...what is now northern Chile, the Chinchorro used woven fishing nets and hooks made of cactus thorns, shell and bone to harvest a rich diet from the sea. The Chinchorro, who were savvy hunters, developed elaborate mummification techniques some 2,500 years before the Egyptians, probably as a sacrament in ancestor worship. After removing internal organs and drying the cavf mdavers, they stuffed the remains with feathers, grass, shell, wool and earth. Then the bodies were covered with clay, fitted out with wigs and propped up in family- like groups. The Chinchorro then took care of their mummies, judging...
Stir It Up, written to his wife during an eight-month separation, was typical Marley: seductive, soulful and coolly intemperate. The rhythm is easy but the lyrics insinuate, cajole, insist: sexual congress as hip sacrament. It was Marley's unbridled and unapologetic partaking of this and other devotions, in fact, that gave him a kind of enigmatic, outlaw cast. In Jamaica he was not only a star, he was a political hero, a status that was confirmed by a medal from the U.N. and by the Jamaican Order of Merit, which he received in 1981. But long before that, back...
...dignity -- not easy in an exercise in which the line between richly cartooned gossip and basic responsible journalism (who-what-when-where-how) all but dissolves. Television has a genius for the intimacies of personal-redemption chat. It formalizes the primitive newspaper gossip column into a ceremony and a sacrament. The Archpriestess Barbara Walters comes with producer and camera crew to hear confession. She is empowered to grant absolution on behalf of the American people, playing first Inquisitor, then Fairy Godmother in the space of a segment. There are other clergy: the Archpriestess Diane Sawyer, the Archpriestess Oprah Winfrey. Credible...
...blend of humor, history and myth. Here his mixture is richer and darker than before. He is a ringmaster, making his performers do dazzling backflips without missing a beat. At the same time he is a moralist, recoiling from those who would sentimentalize the Holocaust or make power a sacrament. In the middle of the journey, Bernard Gursky seeks a biographer. "For this job," he booms, "I don't want a Canadian. I want the best." He got both...