Word: sermons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more: a gifted mimic with explosive sexual charisma. That's what gives the Beverly Hills Cop films their sleek, self- satisfied zing. But 90 minutes of Murphy, prowling the stage in duds of black and blue (just like his comedy), can wear thin when the text of his sermon is the cupidity of women and the stupidity of men. Richard Pryor, Murphy's stand- up role model, earned his right to obscene rage. In the younger, middle- class comic, anger seems a petulant pose. Like any sham evangelist, he can entertain without convincing. And even in this ragged turn...
...Salvador. At 6 p.m. on March 24, 1980, Oscar Arnulfo Romero, the Archbishop of San Salvador and an outspoken critic of the military terrorism that was ravaging the country, was celebrating Mass in the small, humid chapel of the Hospital of Divine Providence. As he delivered his sermon, a gunshot shattered the calm of the ceremony. The Archbishop toppled to the floor, his heart pierced by a single bullet. Blood stained the white altar cloth. Bending down to give the gray-haired prelate a final kiss, a nun received his last words: "May God have mercy on the assassins...
...Staring into the camera at the end of the first Democratic debate in July, he intoned, "If you want a slick packaged product, I'm not your candidate. If you want someone who levels with you, who you can trust, I am your candidate." Something in that simple Simon sermon resonated with Democratic voters: authenticity in an age of image...
...theatrical experience he has fashioned is part religious pageant, part sermon, part military panoply and part celebration of the reverberant power of language -- of vows, of curses, of omens. Above all it glories in the eternal reign of the storyteller, whose chronicles outlast the might of the captains and kings and, yes, even gods who figure in his tales. At one point a deity confronts the poet who is purportedly narrating the epic and demands, "Vyasa, which of us has invented the other?" That is art at its most self- aggrandizing. Yet how indeed does man come to comprehend anything...
...particular point of it, is an encouraging sign of maturity in matters of race. For whites as well as blacks, The Cosby Show is a weekly source of comfort and wisdom. "I hear white working-class families quoting The Cosby Show as though it were the last church sermon they heard," says Harvard Psychiatrist Robert Coles. "It's a pastoral quality...