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...Lump. It didn't work. The quite-competent-thank-you British captain saw the launch departing and sent a landing party to see what it might be leaving. "I found a shallow hole," related Ray, "and I threw myself down in it and covered myself with a green cloth. I crossed my arms and put my head down and hoped they wouldn't find me. They almost didn't." But on the second search of the island, one British sailor noticed the green-covered lump and hustled Ray to his feet...
Died. Catherine Evans Whitener, 83, who at the age of 15 snipped off each bit of yarn as it came through the cloth of a bedspread she was making, thus inventing the tufted bedspread, something that has since become one of Georgia's largest industries as mass production built up tufted textiles into a $500 million-a-year business; of cancer; in Dalton...
Died. Lord Brabazon of Tara, 80, pioneer British aviator and a Minister of Aircraft Production in Churchill's wartime government, a crusty curmudgeon who in 1909 managed to take off in a fragile cloth-and-wood contraption and fly it a mile, bounced in and out of Parliament until his 1941 appointment to boss Britain's rapidly expanding aircraft industry, a job he did well until he was ousted in early 1942 for impolitically suggesting that England should be happy that German Nazis and Russian Communists were killing each other off; following a heart attack; in Chertsey, England...
...NEPAL-Asia House, 112 East 64th. The first major exhibition of Nepalese art spans 14 centuries. Limestone sculptures of classical simplicity, gilded idols adorned with precious stones, elaborate cloth paintings of mandalas, the Buddhist diagram for spiritual reintegration. Through...
Bowl & Blood. In many religions, man uses icons to guide his meditations. Nepalese cloth paintings often contain mandalas, magic diagrams of the cosmos without and the self within. One such (see opposite page) focuses on the mighty mediating god, Mahakala, whose blue bulk is crowned and garlanded with severed heads. The worshiper is expected to make a visual pilgrim's progress from the edges of the mandala, where he buries his worldliness in stylized cemeteries showing scenes of torture and immolation. Four godlings representing the cardinal compass points help him purge external reality. At the center Mahakala waits, clutching...