Word: snaked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fierce joys and harsh sorrows against the spare Greek landscape. Anthony Quinn was possessed by the title role; Herschel Bernardi merely inhabits the part like a rented room. Quinn had the sexual assurance of a goat; Bernardi talks up lust as if he were a barker for a snake-oil remedy. Zorba has to be-as Quinn was and Bernardi is not-a grizzled Dionysian pagan, a piece of the Hellenic sun shaped like...
There's a visually witty wood snake in one piece. Mirko made it because "sometimes you play." After a while one might analyze the wit of the snake's proportions, but at first the whimsy is simply experienced...
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...state that snake handling [Nov. 1] is based on Jesus' words in Mark: 16. Modern versions of the Bible do not include these words in the text. The oldest Greek manuscripts do not include "snake power." Modern scholars generally agree with James L. Price of Duke University that "vocabulary, style, content and manuscript evidence support the conclusion that this ending is no part of the Second Gospel. Later scribes supplied it." The King James translators did not have access to these early manuscripts, so the words do occur in their version...
...course, God does not always provide his anointing power. Mullins' right hand was amputated in 1953 after he was bitten by a rattler, and some church experts estimate that there may be as many as 75 snakebites a year as a result of the services. Nonetheless, the snake handlers' faith remains unshaken. They argue, in fact, that the deaths are simply God's way of answering detractors who accuse the sects of using defanged serpents. As for the late Oscar Pelfrey, says Mullins, "he died 100% in his faith." Why, then, was he bitten...