Word: luke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Holy Family. Mary and Joseph look like a couple of '60s flower children, he curly-haired and callow, she snub-nosed, discreetly nubile, with a hint of freckles. Much of what happens to them is intended as dramatic improvement on the work of the original scriptwriters, Matthew and Luke. Mary's father, for instance, is crucified for criticizing the government. Joseph's family has come down in the world, its ancestral wealth having been snatched from it by greedy King Herod. Joseph has been an anti-Roman terrorist. When Mary claims to be pregnant with the Messiah...
...water of a Roman spring turned to oil on the day Christ was born. But the most touching Nativity tales turned up in 14th century English mystery plays. In the York Cycle, a medieval playwright gives Mary rhymed lines that brilliantly extend the spirit and simplicity of Matthew and Luke: Now in my soul great joy have I am all clad in comfort clear; Now will be born of my body Both God and man together here...
...Birth of the Messiah by Raymond E. Brown (Doubleday, 1977). A top Catholic New Testament expert's close analysis of the story of Jesus' birth in Matthew and Luke, with some surprises, e.g., he doubts Jesus was born in Bethlehem...
...surgery. Some of these operations are for purely cosmetic reasons. In one recent case, for example, plastic surgery was used to treat a girl of eleven who had a fold of fibrotic skin hanging from her genital area. Said Dr. P. Bela Fodor, who performed the operation at St. Luke's Hospital in Manhattan:"There's a good chance she will never have a recurrence and that she will go on to live a normal life...
...film uses much footage on Luke from Heyman's so-called Genesis Project, his five-year-old effort to film the entire Bible for educational purposes (Heyman has also filmed most of Genesis). He hopes that the proceeds from theater and TV showings of Jesus and future spin-offs will allow him to complete his project, which has already cost $22.5 million, before the end of the century...