Word: grooming
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Besides Sheina's homelife, Harris depicts a series of community scenes: an outdoor wedding capped by the bride's energetic dance with other women while the groom prances in an adjacent room with the men; a beehive-like bakery where workers scurry to produce matzoh under the prescribed limit of 18 minutes; a farbrengen (gathering), where Rabbi Schneerson preaches extemporaneously for hours to a room packed with followers, while the women crowd behind dark Plexiglas in an upstairs gallery...
Because Begin refused to groom a successor within Herut, a power struggle at last week's convention was probably inevitable. Shamir, bolstered by a letter of support from Begin, who remained in seclusion at his Jerusalem home, won the first round when a Shamir loyalist, Minister of Labor Moshe Katzav, was elected convention chairman. He lost the second when Sharon defeated Shamir's candidate, Begin's son Benny, 43, a political neophyte, for chairmanship of the committee that controls the selection of delegates...
...groom, who cashes in for sticking...
...even looks at each other?but Chang makes their body language easy to read. He captures the physical atmosphere of apprehension and awkwardness generated by two very different people suddenly cast together, for better or worse. We can feel the effort of will required by both bride and groom to continue down this path. The women cannot keep their anxiety at bay?they'll be the ones moving to a foreign land, cut off from everything they know. The men look befuddled. Chang ends with photos shot at the weddings, including some of the most graceless embraces ever captured...
...bride and/or the groom is allowed as much as one month after the gift registry has been posted on the CNN website or has been ridiculed by late-night talk-show hosts, whichever comes first...