Word: sinner
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Come on along, fiction lovers, James Wilcox writes your kind of book. GUEST OF , A SINNER (HarperCollins; $20), his sixth novel, is a funny, rambling chronicle of half a dozen people in New York City whom any sociologist would label misfits. Eric Thorsen gets by as a piano teacher and accompanist. His sister sells espresso machines at Macy's. Their father brews trouble. So do the people drawn to the Thorsens, mostly by Eric's good looks -- to which he is indifferent. Wilcox's skill is in taking the reader by the hand into his shaggy narrative and filling...
...problem with "bimbo eruptions." Carville, who serves as one of Clinton's top strategists and phrasemakers, quickly fired back, calling his inamorata's memo "new evidence that the Bush campaign is out of control." Carville, obviously pained by the situation, added, "You can hate the sin and love the sinner...
Andrew Watson plays Alfred III, Claire's Childhood Sweet heart. As the rather serious, sentimental mayor-to-be of today, Watson is consummately convincing. But he does not succeed in making the darker side of himself--the coward, the sinner, the betrayer--seem real. The viewer will remember him nonetheless, if only for the violent climax of the first act. To the accompaniment of Gavin Friday's Next, he writhes on stage in an agony of what might be orgasmic ecstasy or wild despair...
That the staff cannot (or does not wish to) allow the distinction between hating the sin and loving the sinner reveals more than a simple misunderstanding of theology...
Still, Anderson insists that CCH is not calling for Gomes' resignation because he is a homosexual--only because he's not a self-hating homosexual. Invoking the "love-the-sinner-hate-the-sin" rule so often used to disguise such attacks on individuals, CCH member Robert K. Wasinger '94 told The Crimson, "If Gomes were repentant of his homosexuality...there wouldn't be a need to call for his resignation...