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...were reprehensible, and quite possibly illegal, and that the U.S. is no longer in the torture business. If Obama doesn't want to make that statement, perhaps we could do it in the form of a Bush Memorial in Washington: a statue of the hooded Abu Ghraib prisoner in cruciform stress position - the real Bush legacy...
...find his father passed out, drunk, on the snow of their front yard, his arms spread out as if he were crucified. At the end of the book, Morris charts Reagan's trip to Bergen-Belsen, and the photographs of the white corpses shown upon a black background in cruciform position that he saw at the entrance to the field...
...Chatworth's sanatorium ("For the busy man who doesn't have time for a midlife crisis"), where he can indulge himself as "a born-again atheist," a man torn between two continents, who should be buried in the Azores under a cruciform credit card. He sees himself as a fraud, "TV's Amazing Thinking Man who speaks in little bite-sized paragraphs...cursed with a special sound, which disappears in a twinkling if he listens to other people too long...
...people of other faiths, the Mormon temple is an impenetrable place of mystery. Whether it is the Gothic-spired colossus in Salt Lake City, the bone white cruciform on Hawaii's Oahu island or any of the other temples that serve the 3.3 million-member Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, the curious outsider invariably meets a closed door. Only Mormons in good standing can participate in the holy "ordinances" that are performed in the temple precincts, or even visit the rooms where they are performed...
Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Shahs, inheritor of Persia 's ancient throne, recently was interviewed by Time Inc.'s Editor in Chief Medley Donovan and Chief of Correspondents Murray Gart. Their meeting took place over tea in his enormous second-floor office, a cruciform chamber in green and silver, in the Niavaran Palace, the royal residence in Teheran. The highly active 54-year-old monarch sighed frequently as he talked, his voice sometimes dropping to a whisper, as though betraying the burden he feels as the absolute ruler of Iran's 34 million people. For more...