Word: birthed
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...nothing tops a velvet Elvis painting in terms of bizarre music-star folk art, but this is pretty good. To celebrate the 75th anniversary of HANK WILLIAMS' birth and the release of The Complete Hank Williams CD set, Mercury Records amassed a collection of folk art depicting the guitarist-singer. The exhibition includes such pieces as Lonesome Hank, above, painted on a rusty lawn chair, and Setting the Woods on Fire, below, both by Bob Gray; and Dark Hank, middle, by Todd Greene. And move over, Elvis--while on display in New York City, more than half the available pieces...
What makes President Mandela even more extraordinary is his choice to trade a life of relative privilege for one of unceasing struggle. Of royal lineage, President Mandela was groomed from birth to take a high office in regional government. He left home, however, to become a lawyer, fighting abject poverty while earning his degree. Eventually he launched a promising legal career that could have spared him some of the trials he saw his fellow South Africans suffer...
...some would say that while Mandela has the strength to birth a nation, he lacks the creativity and flexibility to nurse it as it grows. In South Africa he brought together the white and black communities but has failed to effectively help his nation's economy thrive as a post-apartheid nation...
...oppressed by ontological issues. You also don't expect them to be arrested in their physical development at about age five. But that's Simon Birch (Ian Michael Smith) for you: mascot, moral and intellectual nudge, best friend to Joe Wenteworth (Joseph Mazzello), who because of his illegitimate birth is a more conventional kind of outcast in their small New England town. Simon, whose tale was suggested by John Irving's A Prayer for Owen Meany, is convinced that a heroic destiny awaits him. How he attains that improbable yet inspirational end, through a chain of mix-ups, mishaps...
About the two young girls who were swapped at birth and the issue of their custody [NATION, Aug. 17]: I say, Leave these two youngsters where they are. Let their families bond together, without the courts, and raise little Rebecca and Callie as sisters who have extended families. Wouldn't that be best for the girls? Rebecca already knows loss in the death of her parents. Don't let Callie experience the same thing by taking her away from the only parents she knows. HEATHER WHITE Arlington, Texas...