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...than ever. As always, people expect their priest to deliver inspiration on Sundays and know the name of every parishioner, to show up at the hospital at 4 a.m. and to keep the church financially solvent. And let's not forget he is supposed to be the face of Jesus. But now most Catholics have only one full-time priest, instead of the three or four their parents had. And when he lets them down, he is much more likely to hear about...
...away. And that's a tremendous pain and tremendous injury done. And I understand it now, really clearly. And it makes it all the harder to carry it myself. It would be bad enough if I were the next-door neighbor. But this is like God doing it. Jesus doing...
This bluesy wallop of an album is filled with songs about grotesques, but there's no danger of its turning into a rock-opera Winesburg, Ohio. That's because front man E (Mark Oliver Everett) chooses humor over bathos ("Ma won't shave me, Jesus can't save me," he growls on the superb Dog Faced Boy). Which is not to say he's snide; Friendly Ghost and Woman Driving, Man Sleeping are as sweet as anything in the James Taylor songbook--they're just not saccharine. The lyrics float over an array of power chords, samples, overdubs and scratches...
...chapel was built by Enrico Scrovegni to atone for the crimes of his father, a notorious usurer, and in 1303 Giotto was commissioned to decorate it. He covered the interior with a fresco narrative of the lives of Jesus and his mother, adding figures of the Virtues and Vices and a Last Judgment. "Giotto was a genius," says Professor Giuseppe Basile of Rome's Central Restoration Institute, who oversaw the restoration. "He planned the location of scenes to fit the chapel's architecture precisely. He developed a form of perspective. His figures had natural movements and expressions. The stories themselves...
...Gospels don't tell us much about the Virgin Mary's life, but in Giotto's time fanciful tales from the Apocryphal Gospels - stories about Jesus and his followers that weren't admitted to the scriptures sanctioned by the Church - filled in the gaps and provided the scripts for mystery plays. Giotto's figures, like medieval actors, seem to have crowded onto a small stage to tell their story, but they behave as real people do, carrying baskets, bathing babies, exchanging significant glances...