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...familiar enough: Matthew 4, depicting the devil's threefold temptation of Jesus in the wilderness. But the Sunday sermon, delivered last week by New York's John Cardinal O'Connor, quickly became a headline grabber. To illustrate the reality of evil and give the biblical theme a contemporary twist, O'Connor recited what he termed "gruesomely realistic" portions of The Exorcist, the 1971 novel (and later film) that drew upon accounts of hundreds of exorcisms. Moreover, after Mass the Cardinal revealed to reporters that priests had been authorized to perform two exorcisms in his archdiocese over the past year...
...aspires merely to their tolerance. Trusting and giving, guided by a "lasting conviction that women were a congenial and compassionate sex," he embarks on a quixotic quest for female companionship, only to experience shattering disappointment at the hands of those he seeks to love. Lewis' Bildungsroman is an ironic twist on the 19th century romantic novels he studies in his library carrel. This hero struggles for placid domesticity; it is the women who behave like cads...
Some orthodox Jews have lately expanded Peres' reasoning to the suppression of the intifada, but with a bilblical twist. "Well," they explain, "Joshua smote all the indigenous peoples who gave him a hard time, so why shouldn...
Today's news, it is often said, is used to wrap tomorrow's garbage. But here is a tale with a different twist: an article that long ago ended up on the spike now makes a sidebar to the biggest story of our time...
Outlined against a blue-gray October sky (in storage since 1924, trucked in to New Orleans for the occasion and fixed to the underside of the Superdome roof with 17,432 twist ties), the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse watch the Broncos and the 49ers prepare for Super Bowl XXIV. Joe Montana lazily solves the Savings and Loan Crisis. At half speed, without pads, John Elway construes Greek...