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...Washington has a marvelous show this summer--"Sculpture of Angkor and Ancient Cambodia: Millennium of Glory." It is by no means a rerun of a familiar subject. Most of the world's major sculptural traditions are abundantly represented in American museums--Egyptian, ancient Greek, Gothic, Italian Renaissance, Indian and Maya. Cambodian sculpture is the exception. Yet there is no doubt that in the small Southeast Asian kingdom between the 6th century and 16th century A.D., some of the greatest stone carving and bronze work in human history was made...
Though never as visible as Coretta Scott King, Shabazz, 61, is likewise revered as the widow of a martyred black leader. As news of her condition spread last week, King and the poet Maya Angelou rushed to her hospital room. Jesse Jackson called from London. President Clinton faxed a message. But because of her age and the extent of her burns, doctors were pessimistic about her chances for survival...
...what of formal commemoration--of heroes, wars, political events? Many would concur that the one completely successful U.S. memorial in the past quarter-century is in Washington and commemorates the American dead of the Vietnam War. It was designed by a then unknown 21-year-old architecture student named Maya Lin, and when it was chosen in 1981, it was met by a barrage of criticism from those on the right who felt that because it didn't have bronze figures in it, it somehow dishonored the dead. It consisted of nothing but the names of the 58,000 dead...
...large, enthusiastic crowd greeted the renowned poet Maya Angelou as she gracefully stepped forward to the podium. Standing before a gathering of Democrats at their August convention in Chicago, Angelou put forth ideas applicable to both Republicans and Democrats. In her inimitable river of words, she urged Americans to "discuss the issues that separate us," yet maintain respect for one another "since we are more alike than unalike...
...Maya Angelou reminded her audience that our price was paid for by the generations preceding us, from the Irish potato farmers to the African slaves to the Chinese railroad workers...