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...wildest pictures in Western art, but it may have met its match for feverish description in this book's hallucinogenic meditation on it. With cinematic fluency, Williams slips in and out of the painting, riffing on everything from her Mormon upbringing to the survival of the monarch butterfly. Strange and endlessly fascinating, her reflections on Bosch's images of Heaven, Hell and Earth take on the burning urgency of a dream. "Can a painting be a prayer?" she asks. Her answer is yes, prayer. Incantation and benediction...
...MAIL MONARCH...
...long, British subjects have had to rely on newspapers, magazines and television to bring them images of their future monarch. But shortly they will have another medium on which to glimpse his visage. To commemorate PRINCE WILLIAM's 18th birthday (June 21), the post office on the British island of Jersey will issue stamps featuring the fetching royal against a variety of backdrops. They will "show his sporting side, and the fireworks represent a celebration at his coming of age," says philatelic artist William Wall. One stamp's backdrop was supposed to show Caernarvon Castle, where William's father...
Protesters, who called their event "Biodevastation 2000," dressed as mutant vegetables, cloned monsters and monarch butterflies to demand a variety of restrictions on biotechnology, including an end to genetically modified organisms, ownership and patents over life forms and corporate control over individual consumption...
Protesters worried that genetic alterations in one species can affect neighboring plants and animals, like monarch butterflies they claim have been damaged by pollen from genetically modified corn...