Word: brides
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JENNIFER (RUNAWAY BRIDE) WILBANKS...
...other?no one even looks at each other?but Chang makes their body language easy to read. He captures the physical atmosphere of apprehension and awkwardness generated by two very different people suddenly cast together, for better or worse. We can feel the effort of will required by both bride and groom to continue down this path. The women cannot keep their anxiety at bay?they'll be the ones moving to a foreign land, cut off from everything they know. The men look befuddled. Chang ends with photos shot at the weddings, including some of the most graceless embraces...
CHARGED. JENNIFER WILBANKS, 32, "runaway bride" from Duluth, Ga., who fled town during a jog in late April, days before 600 guests were due to attend her wedding; with lying to authorities about having been kidnapped and sexually assaulted; by a grand jury in Gwinnett County...
...tale of a woman approaching middle age who doesn't know exactly what she wants (because she secretly knows that what she wants is irresponsibility) sounds like familiar stuff. But Grunwald tells the story with a wit-a bride wears an "expression of tranquilized charm"-that never quite conceals the sting of wisdom just below. Perhaps it's no surprise that by the end of her well-turned and winning tale, we see and feel, as Farber does, that the pursuit of happiness is really nothing more than a recipe for misery. -By Pico Iyer
...parents in Perth before growing up in Brunei and, later, Melbourne, Lim is cross-fertilization in action. Her music embodies the process. The Alchemical Wedding, which elision premiered at the Melbourne Festival in 1996, shifts almost imperceptibly between Western and Eastern sounds, from contrabassoon to erhu (as bridegroom and bride), in a sliding scale of culture. With Inguz (1996), named after a Viking rune symbolizing fertility, the clarinet threatens to soar at any moment into Gershwin-like rhapsody, but gives birth to something else - music as anthropology. For her 2000 opera Moon Spirit Feasting, the composer spent time in Malaysia...