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...must know that. Know the fact, or the music, or the truth inside the mythology, spun from roots by his rough magic into cloth of gold, into songs that are the shifting, stormy center of American popular music in the second part of the very century when the music was invented...
Being an atheist, I really could not care less whether Jesus was ever wrapped in this cloth, but I feel Pascal's words offer a simple philosophy for those in doubt about the authenticity of an object that is considered sacred. CARY J. COLABRESE Perugia, Italy...
...South Korean fabric salesman, knows this all too well. Ahn bemoans the fact that he can't cut back his traveling, because cloth must be "felt and seen." He skips meals, crams more meetings into an already tight schedule and grabs public buses instead of hailing cabs. "When I jokingly told some of my business contacts to pay for meals, they took it seriously," says Ahn, whose belt tightening has worked perhaps too effectively--he claims he lost 8 lbs. with all the extra running around on his last business trip. Other pleasurable business habits are also taking a pounding...
...scientist and a Catholic, I believe the Shroud of Turin is the burial cloth of Christ [RELIGION, April 20]. Perhaps the only conclusion that will satisfy everyone is that for those who have true faith, no explanation is necessary; for those who do not, no explanation is possible. WILLIAM J. KEPPLER South Miami...
...Paris he made more toys and, before long, a whole circus: lions and their tamers, an elephant, acrobats, trapeze artists, clowns, all made of wire and wood and cloth and cork, with himself as their enormous ringmaster manipulating them to music. To judge from the surviving film made of the circus in action, it was quite a show, and it appealed to the latent kid in every avant-gardist. It was le cirque Calder that got the young American full entry to the Parisian art world. This charming piece of performance art was one of the small sights of Paris...