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Review: Jesus cleans up his act The Son of God is famous for His Easter comebacks, says John Lyttle, but this time He's developed a more user-friendly image
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Like Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard, God used to be big.
Disaster movie big. Global floods; entire cities devastated;
stopping the sun in the sky so the Israelites could have a little
more daylight for genocidal slaughter, burning bushes miked for Dolby
stereo. The FX were too, too fabulous, even when the script needed
work: "Remove your Reeboks, for where thy joggest is private
property." Sure He was bossy. But who were you going to complain
to? Ofgod?
Back then the Big Guy Upstair...
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Putting A Fresh Face on Jesus; Discovery, PBS Specials Explore Changing Images
The Washington Post
; So here we have it: Jesus did not really look like the flaxen- haired, smooth-skinned, narrow-faced European we see so often. It's far more likely He had swarthy skin, a wide face with a prominent nose and short curly black hair and beard. His skin would have been wrinkled and tough from squinting
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 "The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)")
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DOCUMENTARIES ATTEMPT TO UNCOVER FACE OF JESUS.(LIVING)
The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
; Byline: Rick Bird Post staff reporter What did Jesus look like? The search for the answer to that question has inspired some of the greatest artists in Western history, and this Easter season, it's inspired at least two TV documentaries. ''The Face: Jesus in Art is a two-hour PBS documentary (3
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 "Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA)")
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PROGRAM PUTS A FACE, ACTUALLY MANY, ON AN ENIGMATIC JESUS.(Television)(Review)
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA)
; Nobody's been painted more often than Jesus, yet what he really looked like remains a mystery. During his relatively brief life, he attracted no artists who left a record, nor did anyone jot down an eyewitness description that survived the rough-and-tumble of Christianity's early years. The Face:
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 "Deseret News (Salt Lake City)")
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Italian police 'find' Jesus, age 12
Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
; ... aging. "It came to us an illumination, maybe it was inspiration, What was his face like?" said Elena Guarnieri, the host of the news special. "If that is the face on the shroud, then this is the face of Jesus as a child." Millions of Christians believe that ...
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Seeing Jesus in odd places
The Sun, San Bernardino, Calif.
; It's not a secret in the sauce, it's Jesus. Traveling from a billboard of spaghetti in Atlanta to a Manhattan apartment window to a fish stick in Canada, iconic visions are seen in the most mundane - and often edible - objects. The images, often seen by the devoutly religious, have inspired
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