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...human being and as an archetype because he connects important stories from different religions," says Van Biema. "The Prince of Egypt and some new books remind us of his extraordinary power and the mystery that still surrounds him." Van Biema, who has written cover stories on the Shroud of Turin and the Book of Genesis, says exploring faith in contemporary times presents a challenge: "It's like reporting on last week's politics and spending as much time on the Founding Fathers as on the current Congress...
This scene--of a wraithlike pestilence casting a monochrome shroud over the pastel-painted Egypt and insinuating itself through the doors of the condemned--is splendidly eerie. It makes a compelling argument for the Exodus story to be told in the unique language of animation. The film's colors and textures are handsomely diametrical: the cool elegance of Pharaoh's palace as opposed to the burnished warmth of the Israelites' huts and, more daringly, the angular Jewish features against the Africanized Egyptian...
...long time. They know that 65 million years ago, a large object, five or six miles across, blasted a 120-mile-wide crater at the tip of what today is Mexico's Yucatan peninsula. They also know that the impact, or more accurately, the worldwide, sunlight-blocking shroud of dust it kicked up, wiped out some 70% of the earth's plant and animal species--including the dinosaurs. But what, precisely, was the object that sealed their fate...
Over the years, some of Lindbergh's nimbus returned, partly because of his wartime service. Suffering from terminal cancer in 1973, he had himself flown to his home on Maui, where, with a strange and touching meticulousness, working from checklists, he designed his own tombstone, selected his shroud and supervised the digging of his grave--planning his own death as carefully as he had prepared for his other great flight, years earlier...
...effect we couldn't hope to repeat back home. "A similar explosion on Earth would release a lot of debris, but it would fall back to the ground," says Kluger. Indeed, the only rings astronomy buffs can ever hope to see themselves are those around Saturn; Jupiter's shroud will forever remain invisible to the Earth-bound...