Word: altars
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Chinks appeared in the White Knight's armor. McGuane and Crockett were divorced, and a nine-month marriage to actress Margot Kidder (Superman) came and went. In 1977 McGuane took a third trip to the altar, with Alabama-born Laurie Buffet, who is the sister of his friend country singer Jimmy Buffet. McGuane's reputation bottomed out in 1978 when he received a critical licking for Panama, a caustically humorous novel that limned the dark side of fame. The same year, actress Elizabeth Ashley threw fat on the media fire by sparing few details of her romance with McGuane...
...response the parishioners rose and chanted the Lord's Prayer at the top of their voices. As the service went on, police arrested 43 demonstrators, and carried many out on stretchers when they refused to stand. Churchgoers who dodged the chaos in the aisles and made it ! to the altar to take Communion saw one protester take a wafer from a priest and throw it to the ground...
Decades later, ten bishops and an unknown number of priests are still functioning. "They deny us the right to praise our God openly," says Catholicism's Metropolitan Vladimir, 83, who faithfully celebrates clandestine Masses daily on a makeshift altar in his tiny Lvov apartment. Last September more than 100,000 demonstrators wound their way through Lvov to the St. Yuri Cathedral, one of the former Catholic churches currently operated by the Orthodox. Subsequently, Ukrainians in Lvov and elsewhere have retaken control of some Orthodox church buildings...
...crook in the Ohio River, where Ohio, West Virginia and Pennsylvania converge and steel mills and potteries hunker cheek by sooty jowl, was not what you would call successful either. "Everybody felt so sorry for him," says Joe McNicol, a classmate at St. Aloysius Grammar School and a fellow altar boy. "He was always the last person picked for teams." When his uncle Lou Tychonievich started a football team at St. Al's, young Lou learned every position so as to improve his chances of seeing action. He also studied the playbook, such as it was, and occasionally tugged...
...steel -- a bullet. "When I saw that, I realized," he says, caressing a figurine in his hands. "I was shocked. If I had anything else to do, I'd change my job." From that day on, he has placed the ivory section with the bullet on his family altar. "We sprinkle some water on it every day," he says, "so we can pacify the spirits of the dead elephants." Even as he speaks, there are more and more elephant spirits to placate, and the clack of tusk against tusk in Africa grows fainter and fainter...