Word: stigmata
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...full-length off-Broadway entry, Gemini, he seems most at ease behind the mask of comedy. The setting is a birthday-party reunion in a South Philadelphia backyard between Papa Geminiani (Danny Aiello), who proudly displays the stigmata of the lower middle class, and his 21-year-old Harvard-educated son, Francis (Robert Picardo). To make the culture gap wider, two of Francis' friends drop in unexpectedly from Cambridge, a brother-sister duo of unblemished Wasp credentials-or "white people" in Papa's olive-pure lingo. Francis goes into a panic of sexual ambivalence. The sister (Carol Potter...
...psychotherapist whose practice is among the well-to-do. Murdoch's tone is aldous, which is to say it seems to promise an ever-so-dry, Huxleian sort of farce: "He received an early lesson from a patient who always wore gloves because she said she had the stigmata. It was a little while before it occurred to Blaise to ask her to remove the gloves. She had the stigmata, and was later successfully treated for hysteria...
...runs around pulling at his hair and yelling at God for having forsaken him. Meanwhile, Mara has taken up with a stereotypical lesbian, who dresses in black, wears black mascara and a black Sassoon haircut. The lesbian shoots him six times, but he keeps walking, arms outstretched and with stigmata bleeding at the hands and feet, until Mara shoots him and he crumbles to the ground and is hauled away by a group of dwarfs and cripples...
...business, though, playing host to pilgrims has its ups and downs. As many as 35,000 visitors yearly packed into San Giovanni Rotondo during the life of Padre Pio di Pietreleina, a friar who was said to have received the stigmata; some paid up to $30 for bandages he was said to have worn. His death in 1968 brought deep recession: the town's taxicab fleet, for example, dwindled from 15 to three. Residents' spirits perked up in February, when proceedings for Padre Pio's canonization began, and local authorities started building such projects...