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Then there are the Bantams, billed as "three pre-teens with a rocking sound three times their size." They look like Mickey Rooney windup dolls. They twist and shout, stomp their size-four black boots, shake their neck-length flaxen hair and shout, "I got lips that long to kiss...
Staggered Sabbath. The Rev. William Steel, pastor of seven-year-old Woodland Hills Methodist Church in a suburb of Los Angeles, also has a well-to-do congregation: professional men, business executives and aerospace technicians and their families. Instead of going into debt to build a bigger church for the...
There has been nothing as good since." If Twain affected serious writers, he affected humorists even more. His timing as a public speaker is still being imitated by stand-up comedians. His wry one-line sermons ("Man is the Only Animal that blushes. Or needs to") have influenced every prose...
Where Pasolini fails, and it is a substantial failure, is in the inability to match his vivid re-creation of a place and time with an equally fresh portrait of Jesus. Christ sheds the mantle of soulful martyr but still seems no more than a fierce embodiment of divine purpose...
The differences between Protestants and Roman Catholics are normally defined in terms of doctrine-papal in fallibility, Marianism, the nature of the church. But there is a difference that lies deeper than dogma: the basic approach of men to prayer and piety. It is possible, for example, that a Southern...