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...outsiders for 15 hours, they celebrated an informal liturgy, then issued a manifesto denouncing Pope Paul's scheduled visit this week to the 39th International Eucharistic Congress in Bogota, Colombia. "Christ does not need masses of people singing in the streets, or acclaiming his vicarage, or thousands of wax candles," said the declaration. "The Christ of the poor needs courageous action aimed at changing the conditions of the Latin American people." The Santiago rebels charged that the Pope's presence will only ratify "the alliance of the church with military and economic power...
Westbrook: Boy, that really moves me. Lehner: Picture the kind of thing you would get if you were awarded the Legion of Honor. Real parchmenty, with a great big heraldry and wax and stamps. And on the certificate it says, "The American Anti-Noise League." And you hear the announcer say with great...
...gruesome realism, one that may be the most important new trend signaled by Documenta IV. Edward Kienholz's grotesque nude on a sewing machine inhabits a macabre room furnished like a brothel. New York's Paul Thek shows a roomful of chunks of dead flesh sculpted in wax. Italy's Michelangelo Pistoletto presents sarcophagi and chest-high chamber pots. Sweden's Oyvind Fahlstrom is represented by Firing Squad, a plastic snowbank filled with cryptic symbols including L.B.J. on a cross, bugs and butterflies...
...their rice rations, the people of hamlets pillaged by South Vietnamese soldiers there to "liberate" them. Also betrayed, as Corson sees it, are the U.S. fighting men killed by an enemy in arms against Saigon's injustices while the U.S.'s Vietnamese allies idle in barracks or wax rich as laundrymen, garbage collectors and pimps for the G.l.s...
...plugged up the silk tubes with melted wax, leaving the mouth open. When the liquid-producing drug was administered, no liquid appeared until the wax was removed. Kafatos was certain that the liquid did come from the tubes. Yet when he mashed the tubes, expecting to find the enzyme, no enzyme was present. One of Kafatos' typical brainstorms saved the day. He realized that the liquid he had been collecting was produced by two glands. The old silk tubes produced the inert part of the liquid while a special gland on the face secreted the enzyme itself. Kafatos substantiated these...