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...religious exemption demands and issued a new regulation to states, requiring that all cases of child neglect be reported. (An amendment to restore that exemption could pass Congress this year.) A burgeoning movement to change state laws is being led by two former Christian Scientists, Rita and Douglas Swan, who saw their 15-month-old son die from untreated meningitis in 1977. Traumatized by that experience, the Swans have become implacable foes of their former faith. Now teaching at Morningside College in Iowa, they have founded CHILD (Children's Healthcare Is a Legal Duty), Inc. to work...
Schiff s catalogue essay does an excellent job of dissecting and analyzing the themes of late Picasso, but there are moments when he goes right off the edge. The last period, he declares, "is not a 'swan song,' but the apotheosis of his career." A ten-dollar word: it means transformation into a god. It is what mad Nero dreamed of; and now, on the theological authority vested in the Guggenheim Museum and its trustees, it has come to "Ol' Cojones...
...have any business trying to stop those who like to sit by the runway and imbibe this form of expression. It may not be Swan Lake, but the First Amendment does not hinge on judgments of artistic merit or even redeeming value...
...Swan Lake, Minnesota (ARTS). Swan maidens in tutus riding bales of hay up a conveyor belt? This poetic, disarmingly simple adaptation of the classic ballet inventively mixed a country-and-western twang with Tchaikovskian lyricism...
...York Rangers, the Brooklyn Dodgers and the New York Knicks in a single season? (Organist Gladys Gooding.) Who was Bram Stoker's most infamous character? (Dracula.) What's the only country crossed by both the equator and Tropic of Capricorn? (Brazil.) What's a newly hatched swan called? (A cygnet.) Who portrayed Tonto on TV? (Jay Silverheels...