Word: shifts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...than having always possessed it responded by stressing Jesus' eternal godliness and pointedly awarding Mary the appellation "God bearer." The dramatic title pulled her center stage; at the same time, the new emphasis on Jesus' less knowable side caused his role as a kind of ombudsman for humanity to shift somewhat onto his mother's reassuringly human shoulders. Mary as intercessor percolated for several centuries in the Eastern church before exploding in the medieval West. There, fueled as much by folk devotion as by church leaders, her cult eventually can be said to have run wild ("Mary so loved...
Scene I: The Pure Joy Toy Factory, located somewhere in the Third World. It is dawn, and the children are marching in to begin the day shift, singing "Hi ho, hi ho, It's off to the multinational workplace we go!/ Oh it's joy, joy, joy, to make a first-class toy/ For some lucky girl or boy/ Who can play, play, play/ All the livelong...
...time Americans finally catch up with Hong Kong cinema--since the mid-'80s the world's most turbulent and entertaining--it may have been suffocated by the censorious new lords from the mainland. So Wong Kar-wai's kicky art movie about two cops on the night shift not only is as mod as tomorrow's couture, it also serves as a nostalgia trip through what has been Asia's freest colony. Here are a cool killer-drug queen (veteran stunner Brigitte Lin) and an indefatigable ingenue (pop pixie Faye Wang) exercising their wiles on lovelorn guys--all caught...
...prices the same products in the same stores at regular intervals. Thus it does not reflect the way consumers take advantage of weekend sales, buy at lower prices from catalogs and shift from neighborhood stores to big barns selling everything from tube socks to ridable snow blowers at discount prices...
...their mind, the immutable God embraced by scholars like Plantinga make no more sense today than an unchanging computer operating system. "If God doesn't change, we are in danger of losing God," says William Grassie, a Quaker professor of religion at Temple University, "There is a shift to [the idea of] God as a process evolving with us. If you believe in an eternal, unchanging God, you'll be in trouble...