Word: tented
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Biblical purity, however, did not protect him from conservative attacks. Over the years, strict Fundamentalists came to see Graham as a traitor for his willingness to work with everyone -- Catholics, Anglicans, even liberal modernists -- to bring the unchurched into the tent. "Fundamentalist is a grand and wonderful word," Graham says now, "but it got off track and into so many extreme positions." Their hostility pained him far more than the sneers of liberals. "I felt," Graham admits, "like my own brothers had turned against...
Their life together meets a fateful disruption when they arrive in Rome and join up with a tent circus group at the edge of town. Here Gelsomina meets "The Fool" (Richard Basehart), player of the world's smallest violin. The Fool has a gentle poetic nature, and falls for Gelsomina immediately. She is so shocked that someone is being kind to her that she walks into the doorpost. But The Fool and Zampano have an old rivalry that will not die. Gelsomina blindly loves Zampano. However, she also loves The Fool. How this triangle finally resolves itself and what happens...
...vitality of the brew is evident from the first track, When Jesus Left Birmingham, a tent-raising sermon about human nature that sounds unlike anything Mellencamp has done before. His voice grainy and low over a smacking drumbeat and soulful female backup vocals, Mellencamp conjures a godforsaken land of dashed aspirations and sordid pleasures, where "all the people went completely nuts./ They all busted out on a wild night/ Riding high on a golden calf." The song also echoes America's disenchantment with politicians and the economy. "To hell with all the politicians and the lies," Mellencamp sings. "Recovery, recovery...
...kept waking up all night long. I sleep in the corner of our tent. I must have rolled over and stared at the stars for hours . . . There are a few times in a person's life that really make him or her think. One of those being when you think it might be your time...
...vitality of the brew is evident from the first track, When Jesus Left Birmingham, a tent-raising sermon about human nature that sounds unlike anything Mellencamp has done before. His voice grainy and low over a smacking drumbeat and soulful female backup vocals, Mellencamp conjures a godforsaken land of dashed aspirations and sordid pleasures, where "all the people went completely nuts./ They all busted out on a wild night/ Riding high on a golden calf." The song also echoes the national disenchantment with politicians and the economy. "To hell with all the politicians and the lies," Mellencamp sings. "Recovery, recovery...