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...Jersey, Governor Brendan Byrne summoned the state's nearly forgotten civil defense workers to canvass commercial buildings and offer advice on how to reduce gas usage. School Superintendent Frank Mastoraki of Bridgeton, N.J., played out an exhausting daily ritual that was becoming commonplace for many school officials. He asked local police to telephone him at 4 a.m. with information on road and weather conditions so that he could decide by 6 a.m. whether to open his schools on schedule. Alternating conditions of snow, ice and fog made roads perilous for students who drove cars or rode buses...
Last Efforts. Outside the prison, the many-sided legal battles raced on. Attorney Douglas Wallace, an excommunicated Mormon, petitioned the Supreme Court to stop the firing squad because, he claimed, it was part of "a paganistic ritual" supported by the Mormon-dominated Utah legislature. The court rejected his petition. Two last-minute efforts to save Gilmore began on Friday. American Civil Liberties Union Lawyer V. Jinks Dabney filed a class-action suit in district court seeking a delay. His claim: that the execution was a waste of taxpayers' money, and that the state would be liable for damages...
...Goes a Long Way). Betrayal follows (Judas Dance), then the Crucifixion (See How They Done My Lord) and the Resurrection (Can't No Grave Hold My Body Down). The company erupts in Choreographer Talley Beatty's dance explosion of joy. This is much like the New Orleans ritual of the funeral parade - all dirge on the way to the cemetery and unholy glee on the way back to town...
...Temple Scroll also provides the first thorough look at the Halakhah (religious law) of the Essenes. Compared with the orthodox rabbinical thinking that was later codified in the second century Mishnah, the Qumran rules on ritual cleanliness were superstrict. Only the skins of properly slaughtered animals were to be permitted in the temple city. Blind people, as well as the ill and maimed, were barred as unclean. All sexual relations within the temple city were forbidden. One cemetery was to serve four cities since "you shall not follow the customs of the Gentiles who bury their dead everywhere...
...single block, the figure has cracked badly: wood dries faster on the surface than at the core. To avoid this kind of damage, some Chinese and Japanese sculptors hollowed out their work from behind. This could not be done with freestanding pieces, but it suited the nature of some ritual objects-images kept in a fixed spot and seen from the front. In general, as the woodcarving tradition developed, artists preferred to assemble their work from segments of wood pinned and jointed together. The Japanese, who did most to develop this method, called it yosegi. In this show, the masterpiece...