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Westerbeck, Colin L. Jr.
remains to be seen what we should make of people whose professed belief is disengaged from their operative convictions. Is this how we become secularized? Does this put believers beyond the...
...This is the first of five re-releases of films to which Hitchcock himself retained the rights...
...It really does seem a world that is, aside from an occasional psychopath (Raymond Bun-), sealed off from harm - - a world in which it's safe for James Stewart and Grace Kelly to fall in love...
...His education begins when he tracks a white wolf with such sublime incompetence, he finally has to sit tight and let the wolf come to him...
...I don't know...
...Rear Window is perhaps even more pleasurable now than when it was made in 1954...
...Screen WRAP UP CRITICAL SIX PACK film seems dated...
...S..I...
...This, then, is the balance of my list: Never Cry Wolf is about a man named Tyler (Charles Martin Smith) who goes to study the Alaskan wolf, and becomes one himself...
...The material in this movie could have made the worst soap opera you ever saw...
...New Testament studies have moved m~'~tE-V~W~n~is the author of severat-bovks on the New Testament, including Ministering in the Pauline Churches and Love Commands in the New Testament (Paulist...
...As directed by Alan Johnson, this adaptation is very faithful to Ernst Lubitsch's 1942 classic...
...MA 02167...
...This doesn't mean that I wanted her to grow up to be I N MY LAST COLUMN I was trying to cope with the fact that there were far more good films around last fall than I had had space to write about...
...He makes movies like this because he grew up around Lake Tahoe When it was still pretty much a lake in the wilderness...
...Bedelia manages to convey, even in appearance, the changes Muldowney went through over the twenty years the film covers...
...Collins's work is the only one which addresses the problem of the theological relevance of New Testament study...
...He has to, because he has arrived in the Alaskan tundra so ill-equipped, both mentally and materially, that he wouldn't survive were he not able to figure out from the wolves how to do it...
...Raymond F. Collins's brief history of the established methods of New Testament analysis shows that critical study of the New Testament in the past two centuries has been indebted to the disciplines fostered by the modem university...
...So did we, I suppose - - even then...
...Thomas Groome Johann Baptist Met/ (Visiting Professor...
...J. Cheryl Exum Ernest 1...
...617) 552-3880, 27 January 1984:49 Shirley Muldowney -- only that I think a woman like Muldowney, as portrayed by Bonnie Bedelia in Heart Like a Wheel, is pretty terrific...
...Where Benny was a quipster who pointed out the foolishness of others, Brooks is a zany who makes a fool of himself...
...Terms of Endearment is a movie full of surprises...
...Christian Ethics and a minor in Bible...
...Fortin...
...Just what are students likely to find in the best of contemporary introductions to New Testament study...
...It does, peeing here and there around the perimeter of his camp to show what the territorial boundaries are to be...
...These are all questions to be explored...
...Depending on point of view, such developments can furnish an excess of riches or simply bewilder...
...Contemporary New Testament work is merely following the course charted at its inception...
...Meeting the New Testament PHEME PERKINS I T'S SAFE to say that no subfield of contemporary theology holds more importance than the study of the New Testament...
...He's a man who loves moviemaking, but loves the natural world even more, which is why his movies about it are unique...
...COLIN L. WESTERBECK, JR...
...she was the first person ever to win top fuel three times...
...History of Christian l.ife and Thought...
...New Testament scholars find their analysis of the early Christian material enriched by the methods and questions raised in other academic fields: history and archaeology, sociology and anthropology, literary criticism and linguistics, and to a lesser extent economics and psychology...
...That's like being a golfer who wins the PGA three times...
...He includes a thought-provoking chapter on exegesis and the church, (which includes theology, catechesis, preaching, and spirituality), a study of the concept of inspiration, and a discussion of the reception of biblical studies by the Roman Catholic magisterium...
...He begins trapping and stewing and roasting the little critters himself...
...Frans Jozef van Beeck...
...I would think it an invaluable pastoral strategy to be able to scan the gestures and ventures of life that are more intuitive than verbal, more preoccupied than alert, more original and less conformist, and to descry whether there are any struts of solid Christian belief serving as the load-bearing supports of our people's lives...
...That two major stars -- Shirley MacLaine and Jack Nicholson -- would want to appear older than they are is certainly unusual...
...Hitchcock was never on surer ground than when dealing with this theme...
...Bedelia goes from the sweet working-class toughness of a girl who can't get enough of cars, to the conflicted maturity of a woman who has to leave the conniving man (Beau Bridges) who sponsored her career...
...Then the gags fly so fast and furious that we hardly have time to catch our breath between laughs...
...Muldowney was the fwst woman ever permitted to compete in drag racing...
...We are not entirely unprepared when it suddenly turns tragic in the middle, for there has been an edge of sadness to the story, a genuine ambivalence, all along...
...Maybe this was always part of the film's appeal...
...This is why it can at the same time be very funny and very weepy, and unembarrassingly poignant on both counts...
...Anne Bancroft's performance in Carole Lombard's role seems more compatible with the original f'tlm...
...Muldowney is a real person who started drag racing her boyfriend's hot rods, and ended up three-time national top-fuel champion...
...Mary Daly Robert J. l)aly...
...Then he realizes that they're eating the hordes of mice he's been chasing from his tent...
...Hitchcock built a block-long set in order to create this Greenwich Village apartment world...
...Beginning with the next issue, Commonweal's movie reviews will be written by guest columnists...
...And that a movie which might have fallen into so many clich[s doesn't do so is absolutely amazing...
...The wonder of the movie -- as, sometimes, of life -- is that something so much more compelling and worthwhile happens instead...
...Stephen Brown I.isa Sowle Cahill Francis Clooney...
...Does this put believers beyond the reach of the church's preaching...
...The other introductions are content to treat the question of the significance of the New Testament to the church under the history of the emergence of the New Testament canon...
...And what problems do such introductions pose for students and teachers alike...
...But I only got part way there...
...INSI'ITU'|'E FINANCIAl...
...AID Mary Boys...
...If it were possible to develop a way of discerning this methodically, it would be a discipline in theology that would be both doctrinal and pastoral...
...Patricia I)el.eeuw Harvey D. Egan...
...As a thriller, this story of a laid-up photojournalist who discovers a murder fight outside his window is as slick, neat, and credible as ever...
...This film was made by Carroll Ballard, who did The Black Stallion...
...That someone trained in TV sitcoms, like director James Brooks, can sustain a complex, delicate story is novel...
...RESOURCES OF THE I.ARGESI" CATHO[.IC UNIVERSITY IN THE US CENTER FOR LONERG, AN STUDIES CROSS-REGIS'IRATION AND ACCESS TO LIBRARIES OF THE BOSTON I'HEOI.O(IICAI...
...In fact, everything about this story of a woman, her daughter, and an astronaut is improbable, which is why it seems human and true...
...Paul Achtemeier has provided a fine deCommonweal: 50...
...O.F.M...
...This is a pastoral method which it is worth our while to develop...
...Not surprisingly, the author teaches in a Roman Catholic seminary at Louvain...
...Boston College, Chestnut Hill...
...in a Joint Program with Andover-Newton Theological School) in Systematics...
...And, when someone's profession is not at all verified by his or her behavior, to what extent is it fair to judge them only by the latter, when what they profess is sincerely said...
...It is, like Psycho, a film about voyeurism made by the movies' consummate voyeur...
...S..I...
...On those two points at least, I hoped my little girl would not conform to the stereotype of sugar and spice and everything nice...
...It's a sign of the strength of the original material that it can succeed with somebody so different in the lead role...
...Can you imagine comic personalities more opposite than Mel Brooks and Jack Benny...
...So Tyler pees here and there himself, to show he understands what the roles are.Tyler can't figure how the wolf'and its family get by, when he is practically starving to death...
...Hitcheock of course knew that the artificiality and cleverness of the world he offered us were what made it attractive...
...However, this list of allied disciplines also shows the weak flank of the modern study, and, perhaps of modernism generally: both philosophy and other theological disciplines are not part of the context of modern introduction...
...We've still got Vertigo, Rope, The Trouble with Harry and the 1956 Man Who Knew Too Much to look forward to...
...out of the denominational seminary and college into the intellectual pluralism of the modern university...
...Thomas Wangler James Michael Weiss For Iurther information on graduate programs and resources contact Anthony Saldarini, I)irector of Graduate Programs, Department of lheology...
...Is widespread dissonance between these levels of belief an indicator of a courteous but decisive rejection of contemporary preaching or theology...
...Where the latter was quiet and a little fey, the former is loud and manic...
...Fall "84) FACUI.TY Philip King Fred I.awrencc John Mcl)argh David Neiman .lames O'Donohoe Pheme Perkins Susan Praeder Anthony J. Saldarini Margaret Schatkin Theodore Steeman...
...That Deborah Winger can act is news, at least to me...
...Charles Helling .lames Hennesey...
...S.N_J.M...
...On the one hand, nothing about the THE DEPARTMENT OF THEOLOGY AT BOSTON COLLEGE Offering Masters in Theology and Biblical Studies and the ph.D...
...However vague I was about fatherhood in other ways, there were two things I knew I wanted for my daughter: that she not be squeamish about "yukky" things like dead animals, and that she know how to punch with her fist and forearm aligned...
...On the other hand, the film's appeal now is that its backyard world seems not scary, but secure and carefree...
...Despite a strong new beginning where Brooks and Bancroft sing" Sweet Georgia Brown" in Polish, the film seems to be groping until the original plot - about an acting troupe in Warsaw that outsmarts the Nazis -- takes over...
...Nor is there any area in which the development of a variety of methods of study has been more rapid in recent decades...
...As incompatible as their styles seem, though, the re-make of To Be or Not to Be with Brooks in Benny's role does work...
...WHERE IS THE MISSING JESUS...
Vol. 111 • January 1984 • No. 2
