Word: sinful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trials of the painter Giotto, played by Pasolini himself. Giotto was a cornerstone of Renaissance painting; Pasolini plays him as an interior decorator. Boccaccio was famous for his ribaldry; Pasolini is notorious for his vapidity. To adapt the Decameron successfully, a film maker must come to his senses-of sin and humor. Pasolini's version is senseless down to the last vignette...
...will preside at the festival he loves most: Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, which he calls the Day of Forgiveness. He is determined that his congregation shall find it not a day of sorrow but one of "total catharsis," when man can once again be completely free from sin, an innocent in a world reborn. "God loves us no matter how guilty we are," the rabbi reminded his congregation at a special midnight service in preparation for the High Holy Days. "He will stretch His arms out to us if only we will ask." Even the 25-hour total...
...Sin, Moon and Herbs, Dr. John takes to the liner notes to reveal his true identity. He is Malcolm Rebennack, an incredibly talented studio musician whose music is perfectly suited to a music of mysticism...
Ultimately, Burgess is the only admirable figure of the piece. Marion is revealed as a coquette, unable to resolve her social obligations-and her passionate urges. Leo is caught in the midst of Maudsley cruelty, is used by the matriarch to reveal Marion's 'sin', and is shattered by the experience. He is revealed in the end as a drained man, left forever in a state of adolescent ataxia...
Half the Gospel. Theological liberals, he began, may sin by overemphasizing social action and underemphasizing the need for personal conversion, but conservatives can be just as one-sided in rejecting social involvement. "Insofar as we preach only half the Gospel," said Hatfield, "we are no less heretical than those who preach only the other half." As for presidential authority, declared Hatfield, respect for the office had got so out of hand that it carried "a potential of idolatry." Social issues of the day, he said, are everyone's problem, and Christians must not only accept their "collective guilt...