Word: virgin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with bows by beloved former dancers like Irina Baronova, Muriel Bentley, Sono Osato, Nora Kaye, Annabelle Lyon, Violette Verdy. Against a deeply shadowed backdrop, Chase seemed to appear in her old roles: actually dancers were costumed as the young girl who dances the prelude in Les Sylphides, the greedy virgin in Three Virgins and a Devil, the doll in Petrouchka, the Columbine in Carnaval, the eldest sister in Pillar of Fire, the stepmother in Fall River Legend, Juno in The Judgment of Paris, the fourth song in Dark Elegies, Queen Clementine in Bluebeard and the regal imperious Mother to such...
What raises this incident above the level of a mere police report is that the alleged father faces possible trial under both Iranian and Islamic law. For the crime of fornication with a virgin, he could receive three to 15 years imprisonment under civil law, and a public flogging of up to 100 lashes with a whip under the religious code. The embassy militants now say they are "prepared to hand [the Marine] over to the revolutionary prosecutor's office to be questioned...
...choice but to reflect back at everyone he meets whatever qualities they have projected on him. The woman (Shirley MacLaine) who takes him in after he has been injured in an encounter with her limousine sees him as a highly charged sexual being, although he is in fact a virgin. Her husband (Melvyn Douglas), a mighty captain of industry, believes him to be a Baruch-like financial wizard, since his few childlike responses to questions on these matters can be interpreted as metaphorical profundities. The President (Jack Warden) is similarly buffaloed by Chance's vague imagery, all of it drawn...
Dutch bishops began publishing a new adult catechism, suspect in Rome because it sidestepped such teachings as the Virgin birth. Ecumenically minded parishes countenanced intercommunion with Protestants. Priests who quit to get married were retained on seminary faculties or continued, without episcopal approval, to function as parish ministers. Laymen and women began to carry out almost all tasks formerly reserved for priests. At a national meeting, Catholic delegates openly derided Vatican policy on priestly celibacy and birth control. Private confession virtually disappeared. There was even talk of breaking away from Rome, as England did under Henry VIII...
...team appeared to be in top form having recently returned from a vacation training trip to St. Croix, Virgin Islands. Walsh said "the team trained hard down at St. Croix," but added, "we didn't expect times to drop that much tonight, but they did drop...