Word: worshiper
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...That Madonna, of all people, of all celebrities, should make the rejection of stardom and materialism the major theme of her new CD, Ray of Light (Maverick/Warner Bros.) should rightly make thinking people pause. Didn't she, from the very start, insist that we love her, demand that we worship her golden calves, her exposed iconic midriff, her conical Jean-Paul Gaultier bras? Didn't she, Marilyn-like, pursue the starring role in Evita, and Hollywood thespianhood in general, with .45-cal. ambition? Wasn't that she on the back cover of her 1992 shock-pop album Erotica sucking...
...Little Star, a swirling lullaby-like song about her daughter. On another track, the chanting Shanti/Ashtangi, Madonna sings in Sanskrit--something that, not too many years ago, would have been about as unthinkable as Hanson today singing in Serbo-Croatian. In translation, a line of Shanti/Ashtangi reads "I worship the gurus' lotus feet/ Awakening the happiness of the self revealed." Madonna in only six years has gone from sucking on feet to using them as catalysts for spiritual revelation...
...generous furling of the angel's robe over her left leg adds a touch of breathtaking reality to the sculpture, making it seem as though the seraph was caught in a rush of hallowed breath. The angels' expressions of mute adoration and longing, suffusing their day faces with the worship of the divine, are even more striking than the extraordinary fluidity of their raiment...
...shows us any number of churches dwarfed by skyscrapers, and even on Fifth Avenue, it's not clear that St. Patrick's Cathedral is any taller than Bergdorf Goodman. Well, this is America, a secular society with a capitalist economy, and commercial buildings should be taller than houses of worship. What you see is what...
...fewer god than they do, and want to have the same rights and show of respect that Christians expect. Like Christians, we value moral excellence and the common ethical teachings of men like Socrates, Buddha and Christ. Of course, we do have our differences: we do not worship Christ as divine and find some of his teachings, like those about hellfire and eternal punishment, very harmful. But on the whole, we have much in common...