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...like a pop in the nose. It's a haute-fashion shoot at a real Las Vegas boxing match, with a model, dressed by Helmut Lang, cavorting with Tony Curtis and George Foreman. On the cover, Hillary Clinton looks heavenward as if invoking divine guidance for her husband's "sin of weakness," Gwyneth Paltrow crawls on a leopard-print rug, and George W. Bush looks as if he's about to cut loose with some earthy language (as he does inside). The juice is in the juxtaposition, says Brown, as she lovingly leafs through her 254-page creation...
Stalin's urgency to kill Trotsky revolves around a secret that Stalin fears Trotsky is near to discovering. The reader knows, of course, that the assassin's ice ax will end up, on schedule, embedded in Trotsky's skull. The suspense is in waiting to learn Stalin's unpardonable sin--which turns out to be, historically, an interesting sin indeed...
...divinity student talks about the struggle between good and evil, and invokes Jesus Christ's parable of the sower to explain how media violence subverts children. In New Hampshire, Gore compared the alienation of Cain--the first murderer--with the forces that drove two teenagers to commit the same sin in Colorado. He mused to a Washington Post columnist that society has finally reached "the end of a 400-year period of allergy to faith...
...things that could happen to this city [AMERICAN SCENE, May 10]. As an attorney, he has performed to the best of his ability his duty to his clients, even though they have included alleged mobsters. I believe he would do the same for this city. Please don't judge Sin City unless you have stepped outside the entertainment strip. There are hundreds of well-attended churches. Where else can you go shopping at at 2 a.m. to replace the microwave that just quit on you? Or buy milk at a regular grocery store at 3 a.m. and not get ripped...
Richard Rodgers' grandson, the most provocative and promising of post-Sondheim theatrical songwriters, has taken a sharp turn on the road to Broadway: his latest composition is a song cycle about love, sin, doubt and transcendence. The music is composed in an utterly personal style that blends pop, gospel and classical influences; the lyrics weave together Greek mythology and Christian hymnody to complex, unsettling effect. Persuasively performed on CD by singers such as Audra McDonald, Mandy Patinkin and Guettel, Myths & Hymns is a major event in American popular song...