Word: pyramidal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Brazil, a mild-mannered Franciscan friar awaits a ruling from Rome over possible "theological errors" in his latest book, Church: Charism and Power, published in 1981. In the book, Theologian Leonardo Boff attacks the "monarchic and pyramidic" structure of the Catholic Church, which, he says, inevitably aligns the church with the rich. Father Boff wants the pyramid of power turned upside down, so that "the church would be, not for the poor, but by the poor...
Foreign observers are fairly confident that they know the name of Chernenko's stand-in at the top of the Kremlin pyramid: Politburo Member Mikhail Gorbachev, 53. During Gorbachev's highly publicized trip to Britain last December, officials in the Soviet entourage made no effort to dampen assertions in the British press that their boss was Moscow's de facto...
...first you don't succeed . . . From Battlestar Galactica to this season's V, science-fiction shows have stubbornly failed to take off in prime time. CBS apparently can deduce no earthly reason why, so it is trying with Otherworld. A family of five, touring the Great Pyramid of Egypt, is transported through a "space-time warp" to a mysterious world where the good people are androids, the bad people have ray guns, and no one is allowed to venture into the "forbidden zone." The family seems terribly blase about all this, but no more so than the series' creators: folks...
...oldest profession was not necessarily the most disagreeable one for a woman to adopt--provided she was able to adopt it at an economically high level. The King--Charles II followed by his brother James II, equally lecherous but more neurotic about it--constituted the apex of the social pyramid; it was a pyramid--which any audacious pretty woman might aspire to scale if she caught the monarch...
...pyramid is the so-called cupola, or commission of ten. Headed by the chief of the Palermo provincial council, the cupola is the body that settles jurisdictional conflicts and attempts to coordinate all activities outside Sicily. Dominated by the more powerful of the clans, the commission should sanction the murder of an important judge or politician, or approve the assassination of an uncooperative Mafioso in New York. Sometimes this system works. But on numerous occasions, says Pino Arlacchi, a sociologist on the staff of the Italian legislature's anti-Mafia commission, it does not. In fact, Arlacchi warns against...