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...Torah, a parchment scroll containing the Pentateuch (first five books of the Bible), is a sacred object, seldom taken from the synagogue...
...best of these self-propelled movies went on exhibition in Manhattan last week at the Metropolitan Museum. The scroll depicted a spring festival, Ch'ing Ming ("Clear and Bright"), as it was celebrated along the Yellow River in 12th Century China...
...intricate, crowded feet (scaled roughly at a foot to a mile), the scroll follows a meandering road downriver, from dawn to dusk. In its 33-mile course, the road enters the gates of the high-walled Sung capital Pien-liang, and becomes a city street lined with pawnshops, paint shops, butcher shops, restaurants, lute shops, wineshops, needle shops, antique shops...
Among the best pictures in the show was a 17th Century scroll portraying an Indian named Bodhidharma who had brought Buddhism to China's Emperor Wu in the year 527, and left in a huff when Wu wouldn't listen. After the sage had departed, Wu felt rueful and sent a messenger to call him back. The messenger returned with strange news: Bodhidharma had politely declined the invitation, and when last seen was crossing the turbulent Yangtze, borne on a reed...
Campaigning under the slogan, "Don't Be an Ostrich, Get Your Head out of the Sand," the group picked up 147 names in Dunster Thursday evening, returning after a fracas Wednesday with members of the Wallace committee who were offering an anti-UMT scroll...