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...Vatican's champions say it had no choice: "the church as such" is ecclesiastical shorthand for the church as bride of Christ, which partakes of divinity and must thus be without blemish. Carroll, however, finds the apology's language "evasive and...immoral." Anti-Judaism, he writes, has been at the very center of Catholic theology at least since the Gospel of John, and the church has allowed, encouraged and--in the case of the Inquisition--chartered the foulest of abuses. "We Remember" further contended that the Holocaust was the product not of Christianity but of a "neo-pagan" regime that...
...hopefully plugging Titans as a "guilty pleasure." That is, "It's crap--but great crap!" Alas, it's not. Spelling's classics worked because they were in touch with their times. The Love Boat put a prime-time-friendly face on the swinging '70s; Dynasty was the very shorthand for '80s crassness. Titans is a retread, clogged with louche lushes in tuxes and gowns, its old-money family saga as tired as the Williams bloodline. Even casting Victoria Principal as Williams' ex-wife, apparently meant to recall what fun Dallas was, simply reminds us that Principal can't read...
...seeming phony even when he's being himself. It's that he must try to dispel at least five familiar myths about himself. Each is based on nuggets of truth, but Gore believes each fails to convey the essence of who he is. Is it possible that the shorthand on a man can be so wrong...
...Just not cricket" is shorthand throughout the former British Empire for behavior that, while not quite criminal, is beyond the pale of social acceptability. To Americans it may be a quaint but unfathomable game of bat and ball that can last up to five days, replete with daily breaks for luncheon and tea, without producing a result; but for the British and their erstwhile subjects cricket is more than just sport - it is a cultural ritual that encapsulates the Kiplingesque virtues of fair play, decency, subordinating one's ego to the greater good, fighting hard but fair for victory...
...shorthand biographies of Watts and Kaprow reveal a commonality of experience if not direction: both began as abstract expressionist painters, both got master's degrees from Columbia, both collaborated on the Rutgers faculty. And both challenged traditional conceptions of art-Watts with his pop-like manipulation of media and surfaces and Kaprow in his experiments with assemblages, alternative spaces and performance art events which he called happenings...