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He felt himself simultaneously to be the epicenter of the universe--"I am the left foot of God on earth"--and an abject, persecuted petitioner.
Unfortunately, the basilica was the region’s one structure that suffered the most damage during the earthquakes of 1997, whose epicenter was located just outside of Assisi.
This statement would have been ludicrous anyplace but was especially laughable in Caroline County--and in the Lovings' hometown of Central Point, which had been an epicenter of race mixing for at least 200 years.
She started off in the '70s writing about rock 'n' roll for Rolling Stone and especially for the Boston Phoenix . At the time, the Phoenix and the now-defunct Real Paper were at the epicenter of alternative journalism--a training ground for critics and reporters who would graduate to big city dailies and the slicks.
Acting and directing are of a very high standard, though, and adventurous theatergoers who don’t mind not understanding the language in order to see first-rate acting and production will find plenty of excellent performances, especially in Kraków, the epicenter of the Polish theater world.