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`Heaven' blows its trumpet too long to be effective
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Heaven (STAR) (STAR)
Island presents a film directed by Diane Keaton and produced by Joe
Kelly. Photographed by Kelly and Frederick Elmes. Edited by Paul
Barnes. Running time: 80 minutes. Classified PG-13. At the
Biograph.
It was Edward Lear, that romantic old Victorian, who painted the
best portrait of the hereafter that I have ever read. Writing to his
friend Fortescue in his own highly creative spelling, he hoped that,
"In the next eggzi stens you and I and my lady may be able to s...
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`Heaven' blows its trumpet too long to be effective
Chicago Sun-Times
; Heaven (STAR) (STAR) Island presents a film directed by Diane Keaton and produced by Joe Kelly. Photographed by Kelly and Frederick Elmes. Edited by Paul Barnes. Running time: 80 minutes. Classified PG-13. At the Biograph. It was Edward Lear, that romantic old Victorian, who painted the best
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Why We Need Heaven: In troubled times, the afterlife beckons with visions of dark-eyed virgins, gardens and palaces, the bliss of God's eternal presence and the joy of uniting with loved ones. How can the promise of paradise inspire so many to goodness, and few to murder?
Newsweek
; ... dark eyes. (The exact number of houris available to the faithful is not specified; the number 72 or 70, popularized in recent news stories, may originally have come from early commentaries that most scholars believe to be unreliable.) As John O. Voll, associate ...
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HEAVEN ON THEIR MINDS THE VIEWS FROM DOWN HERE
Rocky Mountain News
; Heaven is that place up there, out there, way beyond the blue. It looks like . . . something. From pulpits to bookshelves, movie screens to artists' canvases, visions of heaven have been a source of faith and comfort for the devout and of artistic inspiration even for the theologically indifferent.
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`Heaven' Can Wait;Diane Keaton, Wondering What's Up There
The Washington Post
; Remember those late-night dorm sessions when you and a friend really got into the Universe? Or you talked about Heaven, and what it's like? Do you stay the same age you were when you left Earth? Do Buddhists and television evangelists get in? Do civil rights liberals get better rooms? And-the big
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Director Keaton: Her Art's in `Heaven'
The Washington Post
; SPACE CADET Diane Keaton turns director in the heartening documentary "Heaven," a far-out look at the Great Beyond in which everybody from Bible-belters to valley girls speculates on the nature of Paradise. Keaton wants to know, for instance: Is there sex in heaven? How's the traffic? And what is
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A History of Heaven: The Singing Silence.
Church History
; A History of Heaven: The Singing Silence. By Jeffrey Burton Russell. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997. xvi + 220 pp. $24.95 cloth. Jeffrey Burton Russell, known for his research on the devil, redirects his scholarly energies toward the more divine topic of heaven in part to convince
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Divine or dull? Various churches have differing views of heaven
Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
; ... that surrounds it. Father Carlo Buzzetti, an Italian biblicist, was quoted in the Intermountain Catholic article by the Catholic News Service as saying, "The modern church does a lousy job imagining what heaven is like and communicating it to the faithful." He ...
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Diane Keaton, Up From `Heaven'
The Washington Post
; She's ditzy. She's schizzy. She's so Diane Keatonish, in her Three Blind Mice tortoise-shell sunglasses, black-and-white polka-dot scarf nervously knotted at the neck, black peplum jacket and long, skinny shirred skirt that resembles a balloon shade. Her feet are swathed in funny socks and encased
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Sex and heaven in upstate New York.
Queen's Quarterly
; Jesus said: those who go to heaven do not marry, for they are not subject to death any longer. They are like angels. This tantalizingly brief description of heaven has prompted considerable debate amongst Christians concerning the nature of the bodily resurrection and afterlife. Speculation was
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The great illusion? On the history of heaven. (Frontline).
History Today
; HEAVEN INTRIGUES, CONSOLES and inspires. Was it not Barbara Castle who urged us to build a New Jerusalem in the post-war period? The imagery she used drew on a rich vein, drawn from the Christian tradition, which had the capacity to inspire and encourage--even if, in this case, the `New Jerusalem'
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