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...Lincoln-esque as possible." The networks would run nonstop coverage; a million people lined the streets for the procession from the White House to the Cathedral. The flag-draped casket was pulled on a caisson - the same one that had carried FDR - by six gray horses; a riderless horse named Black Jack followed behind, a sword hanging from the black saddle, a pair of boots reversed in the stirrups - a sign that a commander had fallen and would never ride again...
...these prosaic surroundings Zakii has fashioned his vaporously romantic style. His canvases are populated by huge male torsos floating in the night sky, wispy clouds of cigarette smoke and riderless horses. "My art is not rooted in things Malaysian," says Zakii, who cites the alienated urban aesthetic of David Hockney and Edward Hopper as formative influences. "I believe in something more universal...
Grief has always been our most well-policed emotion. Mourning is painful, so we make it the stuff of pageantry --of muffled drums and riderless horses and black-draped catafalques. To suffer collectively is, if nothing else, to suffer prettily...
...bringing people back into her fold. When Frost's wife, a retired Army major general, was buried in September, he was touched that Pelosi interrupted her frantic campaign schedule to attend the service at Arlington National Cemetery and then walked more than a mile behind the caisson and riderless horse that took Kathryn Frost to her grave. Afterward, Pelosi asked Frost to visit her in her office. She appreciated the work he was doing to help Democratic candidates, she told him, and added that if the party won the House, she would be turning to him for more. "She could...
...town son of a drunk, who served two full terms as President and was a lightning rod for the opposition. But Reagan never admitted to demons, and he was always confident about his fate. Clinton professes not to have thought about his own funeral yet--whether he wants the riderless horse, the pomp of the National Cathedral--but he must be wondering whether he will rate the same outpouring of tears and encomiums as Reagan, whether his personal Armageddon will ever be resolved and his reputation restored or whether, instead of a placid eternal flame at his grave...