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...fall, the energy crisis burst upon the U.S. with the emotional impact of a modern-day handwriting on the wall. After a long Belshazzar's feast of energy gluttony, it seemed, Americans were being called to a bitter reckoning. The winter loomed as a grim season of cold bedrooms and chilly classrooms, of painful shortages of oil-related products ranging from phonograph records to penicillin, of cramped inability to travel, of shuttered factories and high unemployment. And that supposedly would be only the start of a new lifestyle of thrift, sharing and self-denial -spiritually cathartic, perhaps, but hardly...
...Africa, tribal priestesses once braided their hair as a symbol of their religious powers, and warriors plaited prior to battle. Modern-day American braiders have different motives. "It means black pride to me," says Clarence Dyas, a Los Angeles community relations supervisor. "Cats on the street used to look at a fellow strange if he braided his hair, but now everyone knows what it means." Other male braid buffs adopt the style for convenience. Explains Ray Allen, stylist at Soul Scissors, a Los Angeles black barbershop: "Braids are neater and a guy is more together in his appearance...
...series called Sobreteixims, now on exhibit at Manhattan's Pierre Matisse Gallery. All the name means is "on top of tapestry." The craft of tapestry is as old as palaces, as durable as moths will allow. But the collaboration of a young crafts man and a modern-day old master have transformed it into something bold and new. Bright color plays against the hemp's rich browns, big shapes against the intricacy of woven texture, gay in genuity against humble utilitarian bur lap. Formidable...
...even with the best efforts, can always achieve. The reformers note that even St. Paul recognized that some marriages fail when he accepted the divorces of new Christians who could not get along with their pagan spouses. Now, say Kelleher and fellow critics, Rome should acknowledge other exceptions for modern-day Catholics...
...Many of the major ills that infect modern-day government stem from the fact that public officials simply do not listen to the people," Cohen says. "This results in one of the most serious problems threatening all of us, both as a nation and a people--the high level of alienation of the average citizen from his political and governmental institutions. By walking through the towns and along the highways, I can meet thousands of citizens who would otherwise have almost no contact with the political system. They deserve a chance to make themselves heard...