Word: kingdoms
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...counters and enough calculators to ensure that Kuwait Inc. functions to the proper decimal points. A shredder sits near a large safe, opposite a small television set. But CNN, which everyone is eager to watch, is available only on another TV, two floors up -- a Saudi concession, since the kingdom prohibits the public reception of CNN everywhere else...
...Straus & Giroux; $10.95). At 83, cartoonist Steig is still among the very young at art. His latest work follows the adventures of a creature so gruesome that snakes get poisoned when they bite him. But fate is kind: one bad day he meets the most hideous princess in the kingdom, and they live horribly ever after. Just what he wanted -- and so will any reader who appreciates the flip side of a classic fairy tale...
From her exile, the scorned theologian then produced a sweeping indictment of clerical attitudes toward sex that soared to the top of the 1989 nonfiction best-seller list in Germany. Last week Eunuchs for the Kingdom of Heaven (Doubleday; $21.95) hit U.S. bookstores amid a squall of controversy. In a nutshell, the author contends that Catholicism "strives to impose its own moral dictatorship without regard to the welfare of married people, a dictatorship based on pleasure-hating, celibate contempt for marriage and a maniacal cult of virginity...
...Eunuchs title comes from Jesus' teaching in Matthew 19: 12 about men becoming eunuchs (by which he meant forswearing sex) "for the sake of the kingdom of heaven." Catholicism uses these words as a warrant for requiring priestly celibacy. In Ranke-Heinemann's reading, the saying is linked to the preceding verses in which Jesus directs his disciples not to remarry after divorce. The book asserts that twisted hostility toward sex underlies the church's stand against not only married priests and remarriage for the divorced but also birth control, premarital sex and women clergy...
...Saddam pulls out peacefully, the U.S. and its allies can continue the embargo on military shipments to Iraq and perhaps create a regional security structure. But the Saudis recoil at the prospect of an enduring foreign-troop presence on their soil, even for the purpose of defending their kingdom, and a new region-wide defense pact is easier to conjure than to craft. The Kuwaitis would welcome an American presence indefinitely, but even they would prefer to avoid the complications that would invariably attend an open-ended effort to keep Saddam at home...