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...this week will have consisted of just eight days of parades and whatever gamy fun goes with them. In most years, it goes on for 12. Marching bands have been in short supply, their members still scattered to Houston and Atlanta. The crowds along the parade routes have been sparser too. On the bright side, that has made it easier to score the strands of colored beads flung by people on parade floats. Hustle, and you could grab 50 or so in just a few hours. Making the most of misfortune--that's a very New Orleans thing...
...surprise that we are hardly flocking to them. Annual vocations to the priesthood in America have halved in the last few decades from around 1,000 in 1965 to around 500 today. As the priesthood has become older, it has also become sparser: there were just under 59,000 priests in 1965, and there are only 45,000 today. In 1972, 49% of Catholics reported attending church weekly; in 2000, a mere 26% did. The number of men and women entering religious orders, primarily as nuns or monks, has also collapsed--by well over half since 1965. The number...
...start of every year, film pundits and critics across the country wail about the dearth of cinematic treasures afforded by the year just ended. And 2001’s field of well-loved films, they have said, was even sparser than usual -- one of the most prominent factors muddling attempts to predict the year’s Academy Award nominations. In category after category of my predictions for this year, I’ve found a rough ratio of three educated guesses to every two generally agreed-upon nominees. On that note, here are my predictions for this year?...
...altered melodies and new syncopations, they quickly adjusted their howlings and yowled on. It seemed at least one rabid fan cried. "I love you, Ani" or "Ani, you're beautiful" at every pause in the two-hour set and, a handful of times, in the middle of a sparser, slower song. More jarring were comments I heard about how DiFranco looked "good enough to eat" or requests from one fan to another to "get a good picture of her butt...
...altered melodies and new syncopations, they quickly adjusted their howlings and yowled on. It seemed at least one rabid fan cried, "I love you, Ani" or "Ani, you're beautiful" at every pause in the two-hour set and, a handful of times, in the middle of a sparser, slower song. More jarring were comments I heard about how DiFranco looked "good enough to eat" or requests from one fan to another to "get a good picture of her butt...