Word: solemnness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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JESUS OF MONTREAL. An avant-garde theater troupe performs its own radical updating of the Passion play. Now, shouldn't a film with that story enrage a few conservative zealots? Alas, Denys Arcand's French-Canadian satire is so solemn that it is not worth patronizing -- or even picketing...
...were set aside after a court hearing. That led indignant sports columnist J. Theodore Diadiun to write in the Lake County News-Herald: "Anyone who attended the meet . . . knows in his heart that Milkovich and ((school superintendent H. Donald)) Scott lied at the hearing after each having given his solemn oath to tell the truth. But they got away with it. Is that the kind of lesson we want our young people learning...
...environmentalism into one person's sensibility, and what you're likely to get is a lousy dinner guest -- someone who will find alienation in a Johnny Carson monologue, pesticides in an arugula salad and phallic symbols in the latest James Bond movie. But in contrast to some of the solemn ideologues who share her causes, Barbara Ehrenreich is a leftist with levity, so don't get discouraged about the title of this provocative new collection of essays...
...like George Will and William F. Buckley can be precious and predictable, Safire prides himself on his reporting and contrarian thinking. "A column should not be a chore, not a chin puller, not a dreary thing," Safire says, trying to summarize his approach. "You don't have to be solemn to be serious." Then with a sense of satisfaction at the epigrammatic elegance of that last sentence, he adds, "I think that's original...
...went to the Clown Priest. I told him that I had lost my friend. The Priest looked at his Clown books and then named my condition. In a very solemn way--as priests are prone to do because they are priests--he told me that I should put my faith in the Clown God. If I believed in the Clown God, he would forgive me. Although the clown God could not tell me how to be a Clown, he could tell me through his Clown Priests how to goto Clown Heaven...