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When Pope John Paul II stepped into Rome's central synagogue on April 13, 1986, the man in white was met by a thunderclap of applause. After centuries of Jews suffering through pogroms, ghettos, Nazi death camps and arm's-length-at-best cohabitation with Christians, the first-ever papal visit to a Jewish house of worship - entering the synagogue side by side with Rome's avuncular chief Rabbi Elio Toaff - was much more than a photo op. It was a shared embrace to begin to heal the wounds of history...
...Moon madness began with a thunderclap: it earned $26.2 million just in its midnight-Thursday shows. This was another new record, and it exceeded the entire weekend gross of five of the No. 1 pictures of autumn: Tyler Perry's I Can Do Bad All By Myself, Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs (in its second frame in the top slot), Michael Jackson's This Is It, Paranormal Activity and the horror comedy Zombieland. That last stat should end, for now, the question of whether zombies are the new vampires. These days, with Wolverine hogging DVD shelves and Jason...
...same, he presided over an era when Spanish painting was moving, sometimes spectacularly, into the golden age that it fully arrived at after his death. You understand that right away from the thunderclap that is the first gallery of "El Greco to Velázquez: Art During the Reign of Philip III," which has just opened at the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) in Boston. There are five fierce El Grecos in that room, all humming in his high, mad register. Spain may have been adrift, but its art was advancing nicely--and advancing into territory where you might not have...
Apparently, firing a popgun requires a lot more rhetoric than loosing a thunderclap. The unanimous court in Brown needed just 14 calmly crafted pages to deliver its ruling. The Roberts Court devoted 178 pages, in five separate opinions, to its narrow resolution of the smaller questions. And what did the Justices say in all those pages? Little, if anything, new. As the Rehnquist Court held in 2003, schools may not use simple racial classifications as the determining factor for admitting students. Administrators in Seattle and Jefferson County were advised to find more nuanced ways to achieve diversity...
...says the Chinese censors cut his film in more than 20 places, but what's left is still strong meat for a movie from the People's Republic. As the captive, pretty Lu Huang gives a bold, nuanced performance in a film whose last - potent, if predictable - earned a thunderclap of applause and cheers from the audience...