Word: virgin
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...under the supervision of Boston Archbishop Bernard Law. Parker explains that the new Mass does not significantly alter the Prayer Book: "The changes are minor and few and have been done to reflect current Catholic liturgical scholarship." Among them: the addition of prayers for the Pope and to the Virgin Mary. Perhaps the most important alteration is the omission of the Prayer Book's proclamation of collective absolution of sins. Rome insists that confession be made individually, and a few strategic word changes make it clear that the group prayer of confession does not substitute for sacramental penance...
...fruit, perched on the very brink of the painted table and ready to spill its contents at one's feet. Later, Caravaggio would learn how to combine poses seen in real life with those sanctified by tradition: hence the contrast achieved in the Louvre's Death of the Virgin between the onlookers, as grave and classical as any quoted from a sarcophagus, and the dead Mary, sprawled like a real corpse. He learned to run variations on the idea of decorum; to achieve effects of the utmost stateliness and play them off against the "merely" documentary. His enemies thought this...
...naturally packing in scandal-loving French moviegoers. Since it opened last month, the film has been banned briefly (a judge lifted the censorship), and demonstrators have jostled and insulted ticket holders in line. The reason for the fuss is the film's plot, a contemporary version of the virgin birth. Mary is the outspoken, truculent daughter of a gas-station manager; Joseph is a taxi driver who at the news of her pregnancy mutters about how good her other lovers must have been; the Archangel Gabriel is a drunken roughneck; and Jesus turns out to be a turbulent toddler...
...truth, she is an indifferent singer, but her voice has the whispered assurance of one of those phone-for-sex girls, and - with five high-voltage videos tossed in for good measure - this has been quite sufficient, thanks. Like a Virgin, released at Christmastime, has already sold 3.5 million copies and was No. 1 album in the country for three weeks running. Produced by Nile Rodgers, who funkified David Bowie not so long ago, the record is as slick as a dance floor, which is the place where it sounds best. Songs like the title track ("Like a virgin...
...publishing her biography next month. She is 24 and has been hot in the music business for all of six months. Or is that a lifetime these days? Her year-old first album, called Madonna, is now double platinum (meaning more than 2 million sales). Her second, Like a Virgin, came out three months ago and is triple platinum. Born Madonna Louise Ciccone in Bay City, Mich., the former Alvin Ailey dancer is among the sultriest of the video vamps, and now she is going for the big screen. She has a small role in the just-released Vision Quest...