Word: virginal
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...Replace with: The Virgin Suicides Sofia Coppola's underrated directorial debut is a gleaming golden fairy tale of its own, complete with sleeping beauties, prince charming and indefatigable optimism. Kirsten Dunst is lovely as a rebellious daughter in a suffocatingly close-knit suburban family...
...Mathieson, lives in the shadows and in subtle shades of temptation. Lecter, for instance, is tempted by Clarice's purity; he needs to devour it, if only to see if he has the will to spit it out. Caressing her hair is not enough. Can the vampire kiss the virgin? Can she resist? These, not the grotty little murders, are the crucial, thrilling issues at Hannibal's dark heart...
...Britney, 19, who was just co-host at the American Music Awards, is scheduled to start shooting a movie in March and may soon record a duet with her newest admirer, Madonna. And while continuing to promote her wholesome attitudes (yes, she insisted this month, she's still a virgin), she is enticing a legion of young fans into a world that is anything but G-rated...
...from the center like wooden ripples from a stone thrown in a pond. In the 1800s, despite the supression of Afro-Brazilian religions, followers of such faiths would secretly worship West African deities during Roman Catholic rites. For example, someone might act as if they were praying to the Virgin Mary when they were really praying to Iemanja, the goddess of the sea. The tour guide doesn't tell us any of this. She does point out that Sao Sabastiao translates as "Saint Sebastian...
...Nino Milagro, "the miracle child." He was plucked from the waters, like Moses from the bulrushes, by a fisherman. He became known to us by one name. To have any greater religious overtones, the tale would have to involve visits from the Virgin Mary--which some said it did. And the standoff over what to do with Elian (now 7) after the November 1999 Cuban-refugee-boat sinking that killed his mother, was as intractable as a religious schism. To his father Juan Miguel, in Cuba, the Miami relatives who took Elian in were kidnappers, buying the boy's love...