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...team's leading scorer is sophomore Burke Murphy, the first Saint to win the ECAC Rookie of the Year (in 1992). He has 15 points on 10 goals and 5 assists, while senior Mike Allain is the leading assists-man with...
...Name of the Father showcases a different kind of art. Sheridan (My Left Foot) is a bricklayer among directors; you can see the mortar between scenes. But he dares to make his hero something more, or rather less, than a plaster saint; Gerry is a scurvy thief who is guilty of every social crime but the one he's charged with. The drama here is eventually located not in the young man's battle against the Brits but in the coming to terms with his father, and thus his place in his family and his haggard country...
After the war, Genet was taken up by Jean-Paul Sartre and his Left Bank circle. In Saint Genet, an immense one-volume act of homage, Sartre made Genet an existentialist, the utterly free man, even to the point of insisting that his homosexuality was chosen, which Genet found ridiculous. But Sartre certified Genet to a larger readership in postwar France, which was ready, after the upheavals of war and the German Occupation, to inspect, ever so gingerly, the notions of a self-proclaimed outlaw. In a nation still divided between onetime resistance fighters and onetime collaborators, each of them...
...standards of today, however, when admiration is only a way station on the road to being debunked, this Lincoln is still a plaster saint. Moreover, his pivotal transformations take place offstage, or at least inside his head. He jilts Mary Todd because she is too ambitious, then after two years' absence seeks her hand. It's never clear why. As for abolition, he seemingly undergoes a quasi-religious conversion on the prairie, praying aloud for a friend's dying child while the friend's loyal servant -- the one black in the 3 hr. 20 min. epic -- fetches water. But Lincoln...
Next up for Mayo's questionable scrutiny is Mother Teresa. Now, if you missed Mayo's article, his critique of Mother Teresa is reason enough to go hunt this one down at 14 Plympton, because surely Mayo's is the first to find fault with a "future saint." Calling her "Miss Teresa," Mayo derides her selection on the basis of her being "a humble, selfless, obedient woman," saying that we conservatives probably didn't choose her for her true merits--that is, for her devotion to the poor. Never mind that Council member Brian E. Malone noted these characteristics...