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Coleridge moved "caves of ice" to Xanadu from the Kashmir region of northern India, where they had been described in 1795 by the Rev. Thomas Maurice in The History of Hindostan. Alexander and a friend, forbidden to travel there because of political turmoil, attached themselves to a mob of religious pilgrims and pressed on regardless. The journey was not entirely spiritual; an overcrowded campsite was fouled with human dung. This does not prevent Alexander from creating a beautiful scene. "I saw, on drawing back the tent flaps," she writes, "snowdrifts gleaming on the towering black peaks and, a long...
...Southern bishops conferred in Dallas and sent out a sharp-edged declaration reaffirming church opposition to nonmarital and same-sex relations. By last week, a total of 40 bishops (out of 275) had endorsed the declaration. The bitter fight ahead was presaged in a severe critique by the Rev. Stephen Noll, academic dean at Trinity Episcopal School for Ministry in Ambridge, Pennsylvania. "Many conscientious Episcopalians," he wrote, "feel they cannot stay in a church which officially denies one of the moral essentials of the faith...
What Robin Williams does with his mind -- rev it up, kick it around, bend it and blend it, find witty twists at lightning speed -- Carrey does with his body. He walks in sections, as if he had been pulled apart and then basted back together. He can freeze into an exclamation point or, doing his trademark hula, go all loose and noodle-y. Imagine a goyish Jerry Lewis with less ego and more self-esteem and you have Carrey. Crossbreed Lewis' The Nutty Professor with Batman and you have The Mask, with Carrey breathing life into director Charles Russell...
...talk of a "white-media conspiracy" to embarrass African Americans by toppling yet another black icon -- as happened to Clarence Thomas, Michael Jackson and Mike Tyson. The saturation of TV coverage appalls many blacks. "It's suspect when all networks on television turn into Court TV," says the Rev. Al Sharpton, a New York political activist. The proliferation of black talking heads called upon to comment on racial aspects of the case is even seen by some as racist. "Why don't they use black experts to talk about the legality of mergers and acquisitions, or matters unrelated to race...
...noticed the videotape -- let alone bought it for $20 a copy -- if it had not been for its high-profile endorser or an earlier, shorter and rougher version called Bill Clinton's Circle of Power. Both were produced by a California organization calling itself Citizens for Honest Government. The Rev. Jerry Falwell duplicated the earlier Circle tape, and in May offered it to viewers of his cable-TV program Old Time Gospel Hour. (No one will give any figures on sales of either video.) Illinois Congressman Philip Crane, who unsuccessfully sought the Republican presidential nomination in 1980, wrote a complimentary...