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...procession down the aisle of the Denver church would have done any Episcopal congregation proud. The grand hymn Allelujiah! Sing to Jesus! His the scepter, His the throne pealed out, and some 50 clerics approached the altar in white robes and red stoles. A circle of clergy laid hands on the head of Thaddeus Rockwell Barnum, 44, a priest from South Carolina. When Barnum arose, he was a much changed man. For one thing, he was a bishop. But not of the Episcopal Church USA, whose collar he had worn for 14 years. He was now a missionary...
HAUTE REMOTE If there is a king of the couch potatoes, the Sonica Voice Activated Universal Remote ($40) is his scepter. It controls up to four devices (TV, VCR, DVD player and stereo, for example), but you don't have to push any buttons. Just tell it to change the channel, and it will change the channel. It also has a built-in clock, a reading light and a voice recorder for storing toll-free numbers...
...Fabre's The Power of Theatrical Madness featuring Mapplethorpe's work. The pictures are erotic and feature lots of bare flesh. Annamirl appears bent over the naked body of Wim, who lies majestically on the ground with his crown, his phallic scepter and prominent manhood grazing his thigh...
Elizabeth spent a lifetime contending with the issue of marriage and royal heirs and the challenges raised by men who would steal her scepter. Marriage is what 16th century women were for, and Queens needed heirs. She engaged in the most manipulative, interminable courtships, driven not by love but by politics--though she was tirelessly fond of suitors. Leading a weak country in need of foreign alliances, she brilliantly played the diplomatic marriage game: at one time she kept a French royal dangling farcically for nearly 10 years. Always she concluded that the perils of matrimony exceeded the benefits...
...body from the tree? Will Christ be anointed by whores, be lover of liars, lover of women, a Christ dragged and dirtied? Will he be Christ with faith flagging, flogged, wielding wildly thorns? Will he be Christ rising from rudeness and doubt to take the cross like a shining scepter? Is this Christ the song, Christ the storm, Christ the lamb or lion? Who steps onto our stage, into our lives, dies for us? For whom will...