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...Israeli occupation of the Jordan West Bank and expropriation of Arab land by Jewish religious extremists. Even as the Security Council met, West Bank Arabs continued their protests (TIME, March 29) against Jewish prayers at East Jerusalem's Temple Mount, which is also the site of an Islamic shrine. The resulting angry scurries between Palestinians and Israeli troops also produced casualties: an eleven-year-old Arab boy died after being shot in the head and an older man succumbed from head injuries after being beaten in a protest...
Such a symbolic rite generates ritual objects, dedicated to the potential event. Wedding is a collection of such talismen. These photos were intended as documentation of an important moment, but, more significantly, they were created to evoke a mood, inspire some faith. Like votive offerings at a shrine, they do not merely record a commitment, they reaffirm and even manufacture that commitment. Pictures of a marriage are magic, or at least those involved want them...
...story goes, and cut clean through its barrel and water jacket with one swipe of his tachi. But the art swords in this show were not meant for such ends. Their unblemished state testifies that they can rarely, if ever, have seen battle. Kept in a Shinto shrine or an armory, polished no more often than a Rembrandt is cleaned, they are among the best-preserved artifacts of their...
...example is the glittering arc of Kunimune, a late 13th century blade that Dr. Compton bought from a job lot offered by a Midwestern gun dealer. The sword, which had been looted from its shrine in Kyushu by a G.I. and has since been restored to Japan as a gift, is considered by Ogawa Morihiro "perfect in every aspect among all the existing national treasure blades." At first sight, it is difficult to imagine that the sword was finished by a contemporary of Giotto, a quarter of a century before Dante began writing the Divine Comedy...
...than 5,000 party delegates from every corner of the world's largest country will attend the 11-day congress. Also present will be delegates from other Communist parties (notably missing: representatives of China and Albania), who will attend in apparent recognition of Moscow as Marxism's shrine of orthodoxy and its seat of power...