Word: altars
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...some people, the Brooklyn Bridge is just a bad buy; to the late Joseph Stella, it was the high altar of the American dream. In its shadow, he once wrote, "I felt deeply moved, as if on the threshold of a new religion or in the presence of a new divinity." His paintings of the bridge made him the foremost U.S. adherent of futurism, the Italian-born industrial-minded art movement that added space to cubism in the blurring and breakup of the realistic image...
...organ is playing an aria from "La Traviata." As the last notes hang amid marble frescoes high above, the band is still heard outside in the blazing courtyard. And while the villagers push and shove for a view, the Prince and his family sit in special pews near the altar, their faces ashen frm the dust, their heads hanging limply from their necks, their eyes bulging with fatigue...
When the Conquistadors came in 1519, they hoped to found not just a colony but a New Spain. Instead, the Mexicans absorbed the Spaniards. The viceroy took the place of Montezuma; Christ became the altar ego of the god Quetzalcoatl, the plumed serpent and savior who can both soar like a bird and slither like a snake. In 17th century crucifixes by Indian artisans, Christ's body does not hang upon the Cross, but becomes part of it, styled after pre-Columbian pieces in which animals and human figures became part of the pottery. In one oil, a viceroy...
...felt a deep union with God," reports one participant. "I remember feeling a profound sense of sorrow that there was no priest or minister at the altar. I had a tremendous urge to go up on the altar and minister the services. But I had this sense of unworthiness, and I crawled under the pews and tried to get away. Finally I carried my Bible to the altar and then tried to preach. The only words I mumbled were 'peace, peace.' I felt I was communicating beyond words...
...literature. "Genet's prose is almost always dressed up--often in drag," Abel says of the homosexual writer. "Sartre himself has called attention to the ornateness with which Genet in A Thief's Journal writes of Bulksen's behind: 'Son posterieur etait un reposoir.' ('His behind was an altar...