Word: subs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Chains and leather on scrawny sub-urban bodies that are hurling themselves into each other, imitating the latest West Coast trend in post-Sex Pistols pop shock. Slam dancing doesn't come off too well, however, when the participants are constantly looking around to make sure they're doing it correctly. Not all of them are. One kid yells, "Stop slam dancing! I know people who broke ribs slamming!" His left ear gleams with a diamond, and he is connected to a girl by a chain that runs from his leather collar to hers...
Sacrilegious Sub...
...National Conference of Catholic Bishops feels the naming of a nuclear sub Corpus Christi is "very near sacrilegious" [Dec. 21]. What then do they call the methods of their "brother," Father Corrado Catani [Aug. 17], in promoting his "Jesus-Jeans," in which he uses a titillating Playboy-type poster bearing the caption He Who Loves Me, Follows Me? Now that I would call sacrilegious...
...Lord's name in vain, can his name be used for a nuclear-powered fast attack submarine? At its annual meeting in Washington this fall, the National Conference of Catholic Bishops voted no. They wrote an elaborately polite letter to Navy Secretary John Lehman, saying that naming a sub Corpus Christi-Latin for body of Christ-"is very nearly sacrilegious...
...Navy has so far resisted the request to change the name. The sub is not named after a sacred mystery of the faith but, the Navy says, the Texas city (pop. 332,000) where the Corpus Christi Naval Air Station is the largest employer. Besides, a World War II Navy ship was called Corpus Christi, and vessels today are named, indirectly, after saints. For instance, the Santa Barbara carries the name of the patroness of artillery men. Last April at the sub's christening-yes, christening-Secretary Lehman, a Roman Catholic, argued that the Second Vatican Council...