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Drink the wine and chew the wafer...
...desire to sleep late on Sunday. Some feel that watered-down liberalism has driven serious parents away. Yet modern attempts to replace Bible stories with complicated theology can confuse young children. A five-year-old girl, wrestling with the concept of transubstantiation, asked: "If I eat the wafer, will it bleed?" Some churches have given up on teaching teenagers. Even in the lower grades, when children love storytelling and are at their most impressionable, Sunday school programs sometimes degenerate into weekend playpens whose inmates kill time filling in biblical coloring books. Offering "one cheer for the 200-year-old Sunday...
...four of the only all-male zucchini plants to exist in the memory of my county Agricultural Extension Service." Her feminism is sharp but not strident. When the Supreme Court limited state-financed abortions, she imagined Justice Lewis Powell "barefoot and pregnant" and offered him "a slightly salted wafer to appease his morning sickness...
...Marx and Rudyard Kipling; the same dark, emphatic brows, bristle-broom mustache, prognathic jaw and mordant cast of eye behind steel-rimmed glasses. But when he described himself, there was no mistaking the original style of the most literate, widely traveled humorist of his time: "Button-cute, rapier-keen, wafer-thin and pauper-poor is S.J. Perelman, whose tall, stooping figure is better known to the twilit half-world of five continents than to Publishers' Row. That he possesses the power to become invisible to finance companies; that his laboratory is tooled up to manufacture Frankenstein-type monsters...
...leading Italian architectural journal; of cancer; in Milan. Ponti's varied projects included a villa for the Shah of Iran, a ministry of industrial development for Iraq, and the auditorium of the Time-Life Building in Manhattan. But his best-known structure is Milan's 420-ft. wafer-thin Pirelli building, which towers higher than any other in Italy. A stalwart debunker of design cliches and a champion of functionalism, Ponti created scooper-like dinner forks, glass bookshelves in which the volumes seem to float, and an austere double bed. A bed, he said, "isn't only...