Word: crucifix
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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John Paul traveled in the upstairs lounge, which was furnished with a sofa, a table with four chairs, and a bed made up with Irish linen. On one bulkhead hung a wooden crucifix of Celtic design, a reminder of Ireland's role as an ancient and proud daughter of the church. A man with a hearty appetite, John Paul was offered a sumptuous menu that included fresh fruit, bacon and sausages, black-and-white pudding, cheese and biscuits, and tea or coffee...
After the Mass celebrating the start of his ministry, the new Pope strode to the edge of the crowd, carrying his heavy, crucifix-topped staff. Then, with a vigorous gesture reminiscent of Eastern Orthodox services, he thrust it up like a giant sword of faith. When a young boy rushed out with flowers, a Vatican official tried to shoo him off. John Paul called the boy forward and hugged...
...have transformed themselves into destructive boggarts when they have been offended or teased. Hence man has always placated faeries in general by calling them such names as "Good Neighbors" and "Mother's Blessings." When euphemism failed there were always such antifaerie ploys as displaying the Bible or a Crucifix and wearing one's clothing turned inside...
...Blatty's reasonably entertaining novel is cinematic vomit--in a word, a gross-out. Or maybe two words. Friedkin, whose hit-'em-over the head style should confine him to urban crime thrillers, shoves his disgusting images into our faces in a manner reminiscent of Linda Blair shoving a crucifix into her crotch. Crunch, crunch. Blatty's novel needed: a) someone less pretentious than Blatty to write the screenplay, and b) a director with more of a sense of lyricism and wit, a modern James Whale, or a Hitchcock, or even a DePalma. Friedkin and Blatty successfully induce nausea...
...started pumping hands right away and was soon off on a day-long dash that took him to 15 campaign events within a 50-mile radius. In Neudorf, he entered one of the Roman Catholic schools that the left proposes to nationalize-taking care to be photographed under a crucifix. At another town, Chirac nibbled on a piece of truffled sausage encased in piecrust, an Alsatian specialty, before warning his listeners that the left was a "sorcerer's apprentice...