Word: stoning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...August. I emerged from the underground rail system to bright sunlight and the spirited sights and sounds of a produce market, where vegetables every color and shape were being hawked in numerous languages. The dome above city hall, black and studded with gold lines over a classical mass of stone, blinked its brilliance in the sunshine, and the street was lined with flags arranged as a monument to the accomplishments of the United Nations. As I bought a freshly baked scone and handed the merchant the bills, he happily jabbered away on his cellular phone, and I took the moment...
Every age must develop its own version of the unobtainable and chimerical quick fix: the right abracadabra to select the winning lottery number, the proper prayer to initiate the blessed millennium, the correct formula to construct the philosopher's stone. In a technological age, we seek the transforming gene to elicit immediate salvation from within...
...BAKKER is not a traditional man of the cloth, unless all clerics are hiding tattoos under their robes. As Rolling Stone reports, Jay, 23, son of Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker, has followed his father into the family business, but he preaches to a flock of punks and outcasts instead of TV viewers. After his father went to prison for fraud and his mother remarried, Jay turned to drugs and alcohol. He has straightened out and now aims to reach others who feel alienated. Says Bakker: "The church needs to stop figuring out ways [to] fight Marilyn Manson [and] start...
...least Bell has a shot. Most of the two dozen other wannabes are in the race so they can get a "real" job. Or at least an indoor job, as in the case of Republican Roberto Marsili, a stone mason who boasts of an eighth-grade diploma. Democrat A. Robert Kaufman, an intelligent, balding man whose socialist solutions prompted an opponent to call him Lenin, campaigns nonstop and doesn't seem to have a paycheck to miss. The Rev. Jessica Davis, who refers to herself in the third person as either "Jessica Davis" or "the next mayor of Baltimore," says...
...Wring me out!" cried one normally stone-faced critic at the Cannes Film Festival after seeing this vivacious screwball melodrama, which won Almodovar the Best Director prize. Hot tears are an apt response: the two most innocent characters die; the others grieve and carry on womanfully. At the center of the film is Manuela (Cecilia Roth, in a heroically clenched performance), who goes to Barcelona looking for her ex-husband and ends up mothering half a dozen lost souls. She is Mother Courage, Mother Teresa and your mom on her very best day. But All About My Mother also gives...