Word: 20th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stigmata, wounds or scars corresponding to those of the crucified Christ, have long been studied, never satisfactorily explained. The first and most celebrated case of stigmatization was St. Francis of Assisi (1181-1226). Since then at least 341 cases have been recorded, 300 of them women. Most famous 20th Century case was Theresa Neumann, a German, of Konnersreuth, whose bleeding wounds were witnessed by thousands during the 1920s-303s and became the object of scientific study and investigation...
Betty Grable up there on the screen is about all that millions of U.S. moviegoers really want. This week, the Grable fans who flock to see her latest picture, a Technicolored trifle called That Lady in Ermine (20th Century-Fox), will be bitterly disappointed if it is not very much like the last 15 Grable pictures. By sedulously being her pretty, blonde, brittle self, in one cinemusical after another, St. Louis-born Elizabeth Ruth Grable has become one of the highest salaried (close to $300,000 a year) women in the world...
...necked jars designed as a sort of hollow painted sculpture. One of the liveliest was half-pot and half-owl. Picasso's pottery owed a great deal to archaic Mediterranean sculpture and ceramics, which represented beasts and gods in a similar bulging shorthand, but it also had a 20th Century wit and a deliberate lack of refinement that marked...
...Street with No Name (20th Century-Fox) is still another of Fox's well-made semi-documentaries (Call Northside 777, Boomerang!, etc.). This time the story is based on FBI files. The subject: postwar gangsterism...
...gave 20th Century music its biggest shock seemed to have abruptly turned his back on his times, and gone back beyond Bach. "It was wrong to consider me a revolutionary," he says. "All I did was a few inventions...