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...Assyrian reliefs. Visible or invisible, in disguise or in full glory, angels appear in more than half the books of the Bible: it was an angel who told Abraham to spare his son from sacrifice, who saved Daniel from the lion's den, who rolled the stone away from Christ's tomb. Muslims believe that angels are present in mosques to record the prayers of the faithful and to testify for or against people on the Day of Judgment...
...rendering of a final verdict is reflected in the Judgment more unmistakably than ever, particularly in the central figure of Christ. Although its cleaning is not yet complete -- and hence the Vatican has released no color photos of it -- the emerging image clearly shows that contrary to a previous assumption that Christ's expression is one of anger, it instead betrays impatience, as though He were saying, "Silence! Now I will pronounce judgment!" Even more significant, no one in the fresco except the Virgin Mary seems to know his own fate, and thus everyone looks fearful. Says Fabrizio Mancinelli...
Boston Symphony Orchestra. Performs Berlioz's "L'Enfance du Christ" on Dec. 10 at 1:30 p.m. Symphony Hall, 301 Mass Ave., Boston...
Gonzalez pats the computer printout on his desk showing a 92% occupancy rate at the Tuxpan and lights up an imported Kool Filter. He plans someday to be manager, even owner of a hotel chain. Does he believe in capitalism now? He grins: "I think like Jesus Christ that the bread has to be divided. Was Christ a communist or a capitalist...
None of this, of course, is new: Chinese silks were all the rage in Rome centuries ago, and Alexandria before the time of Christ was a paradigm of the modern universal city. Not even American eclecticism is new: many a small town has long known Chinese restaurants, Indian doctors and Lebanese grocers. But now all these cultures are crossing at the speed of light. And the rising diversity of the planet is something more than mere cosmopolitanism: it is a fundamental recoloring of the very complexion of societies. Cities like Paris, or Hong Kong, have always had a soigne, international...