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McCaig admits he tried "to get Lucas in trouble over the hair" by designing coiffures every bit as grotty as Princess Leia's bagel buns. One of Amidala's dos looks like a fan belt, another like huge shoulder pads. He designed Amidala's raiment to be elaborate too. "George wanted the Queen so regal she could sneak out the back of the dress," he says, "and no one would know she was gone." Trisha Biggar spent a year fashioning the costumes. "It's George's first costume drama," she says. "The movie will have lots of girl appeal, especially...
...republic has allowed the production of highly sophisticated films that are both touching, in the style of Italian postwar neorealism, and at least implicitly critical of aspects of the ruling theocracy. How do Iran's auteurs pull off this double feat? Frequently, by cloaking grownup stories in toddler raiment. For Iran is not only a leader in world film; it is the leader in children's films. This is Iran's cinema spirit: humanism with a kid's face...
...Presbyterian she has formed an impromptu priesthood of her own: about 100 worshippers are wearing stoles. One is shot through with glitter, another with gold lame stars. They are all purple, the color, confides a congregant, of the Resurrection. (Actually, purple symbolizes penitence, an unintended irony.) Garbed in forbidden raiment, the parishioners rock to the lyric, "You allowed us to come together one more time." It is this communion that sustains Marian Moschetti, a lapsed Catholic who rediscovered her faith five years ago. "I saw the true spirit of Christ embodied in this community," she says. "Corpus Christi...
...breathtaking reality to the sculpture, making it seem as though the seraph was caught in a rush of hallowed breath. The angels' expressions of mute adoration and longing, suffusing their day faces with the worship of the divine, are even more striking than the extraordinary fluidity of their raiment...
...Tibetans rioted in Lhasa, their Chinese rulers killed as many as 32 people, the Dalai Lama held his first major press conference in Dharmsala, and the U.S. Senate unanimously condemned the Chinese actions. Riots have erupted in recent weeks, but even before that, the modest man in monk's raiment had found himself not only the spiritual symbol linking 100,000 Tibetans in exile to the 6 million still living under Chinese rule, but also, more than ever, a political rallying point. "The 14th Dalai Lama may be the most popular Dalai Lama of all," he says, smiling merrily...