Word: virginal
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...hundreds of miles,” I think as I walk down the street towards the famous Grotto, one of the world’s most visited Catholic pilgrimage sites, where in the mid-19th century St. Bernadette is said to have had a vision of the Virgin. After a restless overnight train, I am armed with my notebook and my Let’s Go press pass, ready to be fascinated, repelled and intrigued. I’m not ready...
...pragmatic, journalist side is upset and angered by the futility of some of these pilgrimages, particularly those of the parents who have brought mentally disabled children here. Holy water doesn’t stop cancer, chemotherapy does; and a three-dollar bar of soap in the shape of the Virgin Mary won’t do much in the way of healing birth defects. But my emotional, aesthetic side is completely struck by the wonder of the scene: by the music echoing from the giant underground basilica, by the way people’s hands lovingly stroke the rocks...
...Pekar: I was influenced by autobiographical writers like Henry Miller, and I had actually done some autobiographical prose. But I just thought that comics were like virgin territory. There was so much to be done. It exited me. I couldn't draw very well. I could write scripts and storyboard style using stick figures and balloons and captions. So I decided I would do that and see if I could maybe come up with an artist. And I was paying attention to what the underground cartoonists were doing in the sixties and the early seventies. Crumb moved out of Cleveland...
...hard to get them off. For another thing, Peter Parker was a high school kid. This is the first time we'll see Maguire as a man playing a man. "There probably won't be a lot more things I do where the character is, like, a virginal, innocent, sexually naive kind of guy," he acknowledges. "Only because being 28, it's just getting laughable to me." Not that that's why he took the part, he adds. "But am I glad I didn't have to do four or five scenes where I talk about being a virgin...
...skates," he later recalls. But they talk for hours on end, mutually smitten. Back in Philadelphia, he responds to her first letter with rhapsody and rue: the northeast wind "is the gaiest wind," he writes, because it brought her promised kisses mingled with snowflakes, as "pure as your virgin innocence, white as your lovely bosom...