Word: abell
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...practices at issue are as ancient as Cain and Abel. Animal sacrifice was central to Judaism until the Jerusalem Temple was destroyed 19 centuries ago, continues as an annual ritual performed by all Muslims, and has been a part of African animistic religions as far back as records exist. Santeria's spiritual roots reach back 4,000 years to the Yoruba tribe in southern Nigeria. In the 18th and 19th centuries, the slave communities of Cuba blended worship of Roman Catholic saints with their ancient African rites...
...dealer who is breaking in as a director after three decades of running Manhattan's powerful Pace Gallery. He knows that the temptations on the brothers' via dolorosa will be as familiar to a late-show viewer as those that befell Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel. So there's something heroic about treating two men's love for each other as if it still could appear honest and profound. "For me," Glimcher says, "life is a series of romances and passions. It's a hard way but rewarding way to live. What I'm interested in is urgency. That...
Harvard Film Archive--J'Accuse directed by Abel Gance at 4:30 p.m. $5; $4 for students. Tuesday...
...good interactive multimedia can be fiendishly expensive to produce. Development costs for a typical title start at a quarter-million dollars. IBM this week will unveil the most ambitious -- and expensive -- multimedia project ever attempted: an elaborate exploration of Columbus' world created by former Hollywood filmmaker Robert Abel that took more than a year and some $5 million to produce. Packed with 180 hours worth of slickly polished text, art, music and video sequences (among them an interview with one of the explorer's living descendants), the program, which will sell for about $3,000, takes pains to represent...
Evil and good have probably been more or less constant presences in the human heart, their proportions staying roughly the same over the centuries. And perhaps the chief dark categories have remained constant and familiar. The first time that death appeared in the world, it was murder. Cain slew Abel. "Two men," says Elie Wiesel, "and one of them became a killer." The odds have presumably been fifty-fifty ever since. The Old Testament is full of savageries that sound eerily contemporary. (The British writer J.R. Ackerley once wrote to a friend, "I am halfway through Genesis, and quite appalled...