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...fact is that original intent, as Attorney General Meese uses it, simply melts when held up to the flame of history. Justice Sandra O'Connor reaffirmed the point not long ago in her concurrence barring Alabama's moment of silence in public schools: "It is unlikely that the (framers) anticipated the problems of interaction of church and state in the public schools," she wrote, for the simple reason that, in the 18th century, there was virtually no public education as we know...
Then there was Kovacs the video experimenter. In his hallucinatory world, illusion and reality were frequently confused. Paintings came to life or "leaked" into the real world; a man removed a candle from a table, and the flame remained suspended in midair. In his famous silent special, Kovacs played a Chaplinesque character named Eugene, who drew a lamp and then switched it on, and visited a library where sounds emanated from the books (when he opened Camille, a woman coughed). When he sat at a table and opened his lunch box, pieces of fruit rolled inexplicably off one end. Both...
...there goes Star Wars. But the old actor, like the old gal to whom he paid tribute, seemed to rise above the script, as they say in Hollywood, and share the dignity that she never lost. His words were simple and heartfelt: "We are the keepers of the flame of liberty; we hold it high tonight for the world...
...supercold liquid nitrogen. Bolts holding the statue to the pedestal, each fastened with a nut as big as a layer cake, were tightened with a 30-ton hydraulic jack. Only one radical renovation was undertaken: Liberty's torch is entirely new. The old handle had corroded badly, and the flame had been replaced in 1916 by a leaky, kitschy amber-glass contraption. (It is now on display in the new granite entrance lobby, designed by the firm of Swanke Hayden Connell.) Appropriately, twelve French artisans were imported to fashion a new torch. They needed a year to make a plywood...
Hands Across America was but one of two megathons designed to open hearts and pocketbooks on Sunday. Four hours before Hands was to link up, Omar Khalifa, 29, a Sudanese runner, was to light a giant flame outside the United Nations in New York City and start up the grand finale of another Geldof megaevent, called Sport Aid and co-sponsored by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), to raise funds for Africa's hungry. In 266 cities from Ouagadougou to Bangkok and beyond, up to 20 million people were to participate in synchronized racing and sporting events...