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...lacquer and silver leaf, or an iron eggplant. Sometimes they are ironically lowly: a rustic straw bag done in gold-and-silver-inlaid iron, or a common rice bowl. Some convey (at least from inside a glass case) a feeling of sacerdotal calm rather than ferocity, like a wonderful 17th century helmet in the form of a courtier's hat, rising like an inverted keel some two feet above the head and decorated in a tortoiseshell pattern of black and honey-colored lacquer. Others seem not to be there--a helmet, for instance, covered with a wig of animal hair...
...confrontation last week came on the 17th day of Mehmet Ali Agca's rambling testimony against seven men he says conspired with him to shoot Pope John Paul II in 1981. In his first testimony in the Rome courtroom, Bulgarian Defendant Sergei Antonov flatly denied that he drove gunmen to St. Peter's Square for the assassination attempt. Furthermore, Antonov asserted, he had "never met the person who accuses...
...member crew would find the cargo of the legendary Spanish galleon Nuestra Seńora de Atocha, never seemed to arrive. Still, Fisher's cheerful shout kept the crew going through the tough, fruitless years when other salvagers gave up the search for the famed and mysterious 17th century mass shipwreck in which eight or nine vessels were lost...
...been researching a doctoral thesis on the historical Spanish presence in Florida at the government archives in Seville, Spain, where Fisher was a frequent visitor. After poring over 50,000 pages of worm-eaten documents, Lyon turned up information that pointed the way to the Atocha: the original 17th century salvors' report indicated that the treasure ship could be found near the desolate Marquesas Keys, off Key West...
Margaret Edson’s “W;t” follows the cancer treatment of the ironically named Dr. Vivian Bearing, a professor of 17th century literature specializing in the Holy Sonnets of John Donne. Dying of ovarian cancer, Bearing (Heather Boas) distances herself from the horrific eight months of futile chemotherapy by analyzing her disease in the context of Donne’s paradoxical attitudes toward death...