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...Amendment rights of states and local governments by forcing federal courts to impose a more exacting standard than the Supreme Court said was necessary in its 1990 ruling. Sixteen states joined Boerne's appeal in an amicus brief saying the law has allowed "gangs and like-minded groups to shroud illicit activity under the cover of religious belief." Terence Nelan
...second installation, "The Veiling," is similarly far more tactilly complex than the supposed "message" intended by the work. "The Veiling" consists of a series of gauze shrouds hung in parallel rows from one end of a small dark room to another. Video projectors hung at either end of the rectangular room each project a different image, and as each image is diffused through each successive shroud to the point at which they meet in the center, the images get increasingly indistinguishable. The curator's notes claim this is a statement on "gender". To apply such a clinical, stalely academic categorization...
...revamp the story of Anna Leonowens, an English governess who waged a war of wills with the King of Siam, but to underline the convulsive drama at the story's core. As played by Donna Murphy (steely presence, gorgeous voice) and Lou Diamond Phillips (who eventually shrugs off the shroud of Yul Brynner), Anna and the King are each emotionally isolated--she as a widow and a foreigner, he as a man bred to a belief in his own infallibility. When they finally, lightly touch in the majestic Shall We Dance? polka, it has the thrilling impact of two worlds...
Within half an hour, the plane was covered with a tarpaulin, like a shroud. Only its red-white-and-blue tail peeked out from beneath the covering. Soon the people of Cheyenne began to visit the crash site, leaving poems, flowers and stuffed animals. Two investigators for the National Transportation Safety Board were at the scene within a few hours. The plane did not have a flight recorder, nor was it required to have one. Steve McCreary, an ntsb investigator, could not say whether Reid had declared some sort of emergency before the crash...
...telegraph Kron's peculiarities, such as that memorable workday when she decides to come out at work via an inter-office memo. Or better yet, when she gets sucked into buying a truckload of Prescriptives cosmetics by a very heavily made-up saleswoman who has what Kron calls the Shroud of Turin effect going on--then pays for the cosmetics with the office's petty cash supply. An expensive and traumatic four-hour lunch break just to find out she's an autumn...