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...with sex and death, are currently such familiar features of art that audiences will surely delight to find in John Ford such a clever hand at depicting them. Writing in the strange cultural vacuum which preceded the English Revolution, John Ford took old relationships and old labels-husband, wife, virgin, brother, sister-and read into them lurid new meanings...
MORE defeating than any of Antoine's peripheral involvements, of course, is his marriage itself. Christine, in the words of one character, turns out to be the perfect "bourgeois" girl, a virgin before marriage, a domestic. She is nice enough, but she is also a product of the society which Antoine spent his youth trying to outwit. He treats Christine badly in this film, but it is a haphazard cruelty; he picks fights with her over everything from the newly born baby's name to the thank-you letter he must write to the Senator who arranged the installation...
...called it a change from one "non-policy" to another. In other words, the options available are still determined by the individual doctor but the names of those physicians more or less guaranteed to provide services to women are being advertised. "We may be playing too much the blushing virgin," Blaine admitted. "We might be a little more aggressive...
...Virgin Mary got support of a sort from two embattled females at Washington's Catholic University last week. Ti-Grace Atkinson, mighty mouth of Women's Liberation, told an audience of students, priests, nuns and laymen that in the Virgin Birth poor Mary had been more "used" than if her Son had been conceived normally. "I can't let her say that!" yelled Patricia Buckley Bozell, the managing editor of a rightist Catholic magazine, Triumph, and sister of right-wing Columnist William Buckley and Senator James Buckley. To the podium stormed Patricia; she aimed a hefty slap...
...moonfaced, high-voiced claimant of the papal tiara is a former Roman Catholic priest who was defrocked by Pius XII in 1951 for founding, without permission, an order called the Apostles of Infinite Love. In 1960, says Collin, the Virgin of Fatima told the local bishop that the next Pope would be called Clement XV. The bishop told the Vatican, Collin says...