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Looking at a few examples of approved Intangible Cultural Heritage for comparison—the Songs of the Moon (traditional Swahili music from Zanzibar), bark cloth making in Uganda, the traditional medicine of the Kallawaya in Boliva—a striking difference between France’s proposal and the approved ICHs becomes evident: The approved ICHs are extremely specific, confined to a very particular region, and are easily defined. What constitutes Kallawaya traditional medicine is more evident and much less controversial than the boundaries of French cuisine...
Precision seems to be very important to artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude. In one of their most well-known projects, executed in in February of 2005, 7500 saffron gates were installed in Central Park. In 1991, 1340 oversize blue cloth umbrellas were installed in Japan at the same time 1760 yellow umbrellas popped up in California in 1991. The married couple also investigated 89 Rocky Mountain rivers for their planned project “Over the River,” in which 5.9 miles of paneled fabric will be suspended over a 40-mile stretch of Colorado?...
...hospital, in Faizabad, the provincial capital. Harakatmo's husband hired a ramshackle minivan for the journey--a five-hour ride along rutted dirt roads. On the way, they stopped while Harakatmo's mother-in-law delivered the baby. It was already dead; the tiny corpse was wrapped in a cloth and placed next to Harakatmo. Lying in the hospital that evening, she said she considered herself lucky. "When I left my house this morning, I thought I would...
...press tour returned from the outpost that had been destroyed and overrun by attacking Georgian tanks on the first day, four local residents had slung the body into a light blue medical cloth and were trying to get it into a yellow coffin. Neighbors stood out in the street, most holding their clothes over their faces because of the smell. Two or three times on the ride back out of the city, that same stench could be smelled...
...Span viewers this summer also have been treated to testimony by former Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith, former Attorney General John Ashcroft, and current Attorney General Michael Mukasey. They all appear to be cut from the same cloth. They may seem evasive. They may feign poor memories, inspired by the tactic’s success in the case of former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. They may even invoke executive privilege. Yet beneath the veneer of forgetfulness and caution, they seek to entrench the same fundamental belief in the American psyche...