Word: saint
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hope makes a pass at playing a TV talk-show host whose wife (Eva Marie Saint) came out to take a bow one evening and hasn't left the stage since. Miffed at the state of his marriage generally, and particularly huffy about competition from his spouse, Hope wings off to his Arizona ranch, where he becomes mixed up in the mur der of an Indian girl, portrayed by a Vegas chorine type caked...
...Naples' cathedral, "not to watch a show, but to witness a miracle." This year, on the late-September feast of San Gennaro (St. Januarius), the miracle came off so smoothly that no one even had to shout the traditional insults of "big stinker" or "green face" at the saint to make his blood boil. It took only 40 minutes of prayer by the cardinal and the local populace for the dark crystalline substance-venerated as the 4th century martyr's blood-to liquefy in its hermetically sealed glass vial, as it has several times a year...
...godfather of Naples." A professor at the University of Naples, Gastone Lambertini, accused "modern" Catholics of having an "anemic faith." He announced that he had secured Cardinal Ursi's permission for a group of scientists from the university to study the phenomenal blood of Naples' patron saint...
...sulphide of mercury. In 1890 an Italian professor got results from a concoction of chocolate, water, sugar, casein, milk serum and salt. Even the Vatican's doubts did not daunt the Neapolitans. After San Gennaro lost his place on the church calendar, a fervent follower scrawled on the saint's altar in the cathedral: "San Gennaro, don't give a damn...
...step into a home grown heart of darkness, but a thematic base for the reader to latch onto. When Drew later inexplicably keels over and out of his canoe, and drowns in a horrendous fall down a gorge's waterfall, we feel some innate moral order is rescuing this saint from this world and leaving the rest, bruised targets for the other stalking hillbilly, to their further sins...