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...SOME CLAIM, THE most important breakthrough in biblical research since the 1947 discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls? Or is it merely a scholar's overhyped thesis, unsupported by solid evidence? These questions swirl about three tiny fragments of papyrus at Oxford University known collectively as the Magdalen Papyrus. Ragged-edged and dun-colored, they contain snippets of three passages from Chapter 26 of St. Matthew's Gospel in Greek script. For more than 90 years, the papyrus scraps had been housed at the library of Magdalen College, the gift of an obscure British chaplain who bought them...
...traditional betting pools that swirl around the upsettingly chaotic "Road to the Final Four" abound at Harvard this month...
...together Joan of Arc, Billie Holliday, and the goddess Artemis, swirl in a healthy heaping of the-girl-next-door, maybe throw in a dash of a female version of Malcolm X for extra kick and shake thoroughly. The result will be the American movie actress Diana Soren, as portrayed in Carlos Fuentes' latest novel...
These two EPs are far from identical. Twinlights, the first, is almost totally organic. The group's trademark musical sound, the eerie, echoing swirl of Robin Guthrie's distorted guitars, is replaced with fragile picking on an acoustic guitar. Though the occasional soft chime of a synthesizer filters in, the tone is a far cry from the abrasive synth of their first few albums. "Half-Gifts," the final track, even features a four-part string section...
DIED. VIVIAN BLAINE, 74, actress; of congestive heart failure; in New York City. In the first years of the '50s, audiences were drawn to Broadway by the singing, dancing swirl of gamblers, cops and missionaries in Frank Loesser's Guys and Dolls. But it was a lone blond in an empty nightclub who stopped the show, poignantly, comically complaining in song of her unmarried state. The five minutes of adenoidal lyricism known as Adelaide's Lament made Vivian Blaine a White Way legend, so linked to the character of the warmhearted show girl who spoke Runyonese that...