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...strange to think that artists once hesitated, out of reverence, to portray the Buddha in corporeal form. In 2nd century India, judging by a 2nd century sandstone carving excavated from Mathura, it was sufficient to simply depict an empty throne - the implication that the Buddha was a spiritual king being very clearly understood by anyone...
DIED Born to devout Texas sharecroppers, Marilyn Clement, 74, dreamed of working as a missionary before choosing to spread a different kind of gospel. She marched beside Martin Luther King Jr. in the 1960s and later devoted her life to health-care reform and social activism...
Absent parents, absent children: Ponyo is all about the yearning for a complete family. Ponyo's anxious dad Fujimoto (Liam Neeson) is a king of the sea, with an aging rock star's gaunt face and flowing seaweed hair. Can he let Ponyo desert the water for life on land? Her mom is even more imposing: Gran Mamare (Cate Blanchett), a magnificent sea goddess who will finally calm the tsunami of trouble Ponyo has stirred...
...founded in something real. Performing live for just the second time, at 4 a.m. no less, Crosby, Stills & Nash delivered a riveting "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes." A few hours later, Jimi Hendrix treated the last 25,000 standing to their own national anthem. But Joe Cocker was the real king of Woodstock. We think of him now as a series of tics and growls, but his seven-minute version of "With a Little Help from My Friends" begins in complete control, slowly building until halfway through, when his sweet-voiced backup singers ask, "Do you need anybody?" Cocker responds ... well...
Allston: 1. The current home of Harvard’s athletic facilities and a future home of upper class houses (goodbye, Quad!) 2. Home of Blanchard’s, king of kegs (and painfully cheap gin). 3. An area (allegedly) infested with rats after Harvard dug a humongous hole and then abandoned it due to budget constraints...