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...What are your thoughts on Voodoo...
...importance of the exhibition in Cambridge draws primarily from this cross-cultural communication. The art tells the story of daily life, Christian and Voodoo religious practices and Haiti’s history. The style of painting is vibrant and unique, often incorporating bright colors and lively action sequences. Haitian culture is particularly important in Mattapan, Dorchester and the greater Boston area, home to more than 60,000 members of the Haitian disapora. Because the art is so closely tied with the Haitian people, it is an ideal vehicle for cultural exchange and exploration...
...head from one shot to a body from another--some of the flesh-and-blood stars are protesting. In recent months Kate Winslet and Julia Roberts have complained that they were unreasonably remade (not by Dangin) on magazine covers. "Postproduction capability should not be looked at as a voodoo practice," he insists. "It's been like this forever. The black-and-white photography of old Hollywood stars was extremely airbrushed." Call it voodoo or magic, we had him do a bit of it for this issue. He replaced the cover model's mouth with one from another picture...
...their bid to clinch further concessions, wager-crazy Hong Kongers now face very high odds. The swiftest way for Tung to ease public fury would be to shuffle his Cabinet, obscuring a handful of lieutenants who have become walking voodoo dolls around town. He's adamantly refused to take that step and is even less likely to retire himself. The loftiest aspiration of the marchers?speeding up democratic reforms to allow a directly elected Chief Executive and legislature by 2007 at the earliest?requires a big, generous and highly uncharacteristic nod from Beijing. In the Chinese-fire-drill events...
...education is the process of learning how little you know. The Pixar animators had to learn a lot about what Stanton calls "the voodoo of underwater things. Things lose color when they go away from you and gain color when they come closer to you. There's crap in the water, and surge and swell." All this had to be analyzed or guessed at. "It was like somebody gave you a cake and said, 'O.K., figure out what ingredients it takes to make this,' but with no cookbook. And you're just going, 'I think I taste egg ...I think...