Word: arched
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Divorced. Erich Maria Remarque, 58, German-born novelist (All Quiet on the Western Front, Arch of Triumph); by Else Jeanne Zamboni, 64; for the second time (they were first married in 1923, divorced in 1930, remarried in 1938); in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico...
...jokes, but as Sturges tells them they get a fresh and hearty laugh-especially when the director puts his best foot forward and doesn't put all his weight on the arch...
...fortunate: he stumbled about, blinded by tear gas, while the crowd smashed the windows of his limousine. The rioters, whose anger was now directed at the Russians, ripped down huge Russian flags, trampled an enormous picture of Voroshilov into shreds. On the pillar of a white ceremonial arch erected in Voroshilov's honor one demonstrator scrawled the words: "Go home...
...directed that his body be disinterred and hanged. The cadaver dangled on a gibbet all day long on the twelfth anniversary of Charles I's execution, then was cut down and decapitated; the body was buried under the gallows at Tyburn (near London's present Marble Arch), the head stuck on a pike and displayed atop Westminster Hall. When a high wind blew it down after long exposure, a soldier carried it home...
...nave towered the figure that dominated the occasion (opposite). Gentle and merciful, yet awesome in its serene majesty, the figure stands 16 ft. tall, high above the floor of the nave, resting against a concrete cylinder that houses the echo organ and at the apex of a concrete parabolic arch that springs from the ground and spans the nave. In the great tradition of Byzantine religious art, the figure is elongated and primitively covered with a boxlike drape. But the head, feet and hands are done with expressive realism, the head forceful, the chin raised with authority and grandeur...