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...permitted, the church will pull away from Rome; but if Africanization is not .permitted, the churches here will be empty." The Pope paid tribute to the African experience: "Your church has been grafted on the great tree of the church, where, for 100 years, it has drawn its sap, which now permits it to give its fruits to the church and to become itself missionary to others. Your church will have to deepen its local African dimension, without ever forgetting its universal dimension. I know your fervent attachment to the Pope. I say also to you: Through him, remain united...
...feel the guy at the terminal next to me becoming existential too as we are engulfed by the black screen that has been saying "TRY LATER" for the past hour. Die. December 27: This is the day. The day that the reality of the project starts to sap the lifeblood out of your vacation. I see a friend in the city, a veteran of this madness who handed in half his project on notebook paper. He says, "I just could not stand in line waiting all the time, kid, it's a matter of integrity...
NOTHING DISTRESSES the sap-loving theater-goer more than watching the slow deterioration of this dowager of romantic musicals. Her originality is withered; her witticisms are expected; her style is frumpy and outdated by two decades. She survives on her past grandeur - barely enough to keep her flickering, let alone to satiate an audience. In short, My Fair Lady has become dowdy...
...fell in showers from the pines would adhere to them and attempt a kind of sodomy, but success would be reserved for pollen of the same species...In the forest, maple twigs could not be bruised in this season, in fact could barely be touched, without causing the sweet sap to ejaculate into...
Phillip Noyce, on the other hand, is ambitious: a boy with a future, a man with a vision. One of the new breed of Australian directors aiming for international fame, Noyce plucks modest Maguire from his fictional existence in fifties Australia, and saddles this potato-faced sap with the trials of the decade--a whole generation's troubles weighing down on his unathletic shoulders...