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...brushwork is highly personalized and uninhibited. The earthy zest and pounding rhythm of Luca Giordano's 1702 Crucifixion is all the more remarkable because the artist turned out his work at maximum speed; in his day, he was known as Luca fa presto, or Fast Worker Luca. Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini's Fall of Phaëthon is built of thin, semitransparent layers of oil paint and has a lightness that the finished fresco undoubtedly lacked (the sketch has outlived the fresco, which was destroyed in World...
Venerable prelates of the Roman Catholic Church in the U.S. continue to encounter rebellion among younger priests. The latest to run up against a clerical revolt is Archbishop Robert E. Lucey, 77, of San Antonio. He faced the embarrassment of having 51 priests in his see publicly announcing that they had asked the Vatican to retire him or ask for his resignation...
...part of many priests." Citing a decree of the Second Vatican Council that urged bishops to discuss pastoral matters with their priests, the petitioners claimed that Lucey "has steadfastly refused even to acknowledge the existence" of the 160-member Priests' Association of the Archdiocese of San Antonio. Signers of the letter included 13 pastors, four monsignors and ten present or past officials of the local chancery. One of them, the Rev. John Klein, 29, said that he was quitting as vice chancellor of the archdiocese because, among other things, of "the present rigid, pyramid structure of church authority...
...Apollo's cabin pressure was raised from the 5.3 Ibs. per sq. in. maintained during space flight to sea-level pressure of 14.7 p.s.i., the astronauts protected their ears by removing their helmets and performing the "Valsalva maneuver" (named for its inventor, the 18th century Italian anatomist Antonio Valsalva). Holding their noses, closing their mouths and trying vigorously to exhale through their nostrils, they forced air through their clogged Eustachian tubes to keep the pressure in their middle ears equal to the increasing cabin pressure. The tactic worked perfectly, preventing pain and possible rupture of their eardrums...
Just a year ago, Dorman said, 108 Americans and two Canadians chartered a plane and flew to Baguio, summer capital of the Philippines. They were seeking "psychic surgery" at the hands of Antonio Agpaoa, who styles himself "Dr. Tony." Where Agpaoa ever picked up the title of Dr. is unclear; he is a school dropout (at the third grade) and, said Dorman, is a former sleight-of-hand artist. He claims that he can perform abdominal, heart and even brain surgery with his bare hands, using no anesthesia or aseptic precautions. He also claims that he can close the surgical...