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...kind of becoming spiritual practice. Los Angeles Kabbalist Jonathan Omer-Man has tutored more than 3,000 students in Kabbalah and the contemplation of such seemingly simple mantras as the headings for the first four Torah readings in the book of Genesis. A meditation conference organized by the Bay Area group Chochmat HaLev drew 500 people. Spiritual life at Rabbi Rami Shapiro's Temple Beth Or in Miami features a custom-built meditation garden. All told, Omer-Man believes, there are some 200 "small scale" programs of experiential mysticism countrywide...
...thriller doesn't ever stir a step beyond the demands of its genre. Nicole Kidman and George Clooney deliver competent if unremarkable performances as the nuclear scientist and independent-minded military officer who team up to save the world from the self-destructive tendenies of a Harvard-graduated loony. --Jonathan B. Dinerstein...
...documentary to be broadcast Thursday, Professor Jonathan Slack of the University of Bath in England tells how he manipulated the genes of a frog embryo to suppress growth of the tadpole's head and tail...
...budgeted films, notably Eve's Bayou (produced by actor Samuel L. Jackson and due out Oct. 24). It also sets the table for two black-produced films with blockbuster potential: Amistad (produced by Debbie Allen and directed by Steven Spielberg) and Beloved (produced by Oprah Winfrey and directed by Jonathan Demme). And finally, it's a welcome little victory for cinematic wholesomeness. "Some of the black films today are not deep," says filmmaker George Tillman Jr., 28, who wrote and directed Soul Food, basing it on his own family experiences. "There are sex comedies, 'hood films. We're trying...
...human capacity for insult, denigration and blasphemy seems utterly boundless. University of Tennessee research associate professor Jonathan E. Lighter demonstrated this in 1994 with the first volume of his Historical Dictionary of American Slang (A through G). Volume II (Random House; 736 pages; $65)--beginning with H, a euphemism for hell, and ending 10,000 definitions later at the letter O with Ozzie, an Australian--once again reflects Americans' ingenious talent for verbal invention as well as Lighter's indefatigable scholarship...