Word: asses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...walls of Paris' Maeght Gallery last week, nudes floated over the Champs-Elysees, an ass crouched impaled on the spire of the church of Saint-Germain-des-Pres with no visible air of discomfort, a sleek donkey proffered flowers to a foreshortened mermaid floating in a bubble above the Bastille. Over the Opera, a huge bouquet flowered against a turkey-blood sky; at its heart were three dim, blue figures echoing Carpeaux' famed group of statuary, The Dance, while two entwined lovers floated down the Avenue de 1'Opera oblivious of traffic (see opposite page). Marc Chagall...
Current on our campus is the historical revelation that not since Samson and the Philistines has an army been defeated by the jawbone of an ass...
Joshua M. Levin: Freshman Smoker Committee; Ass't. Dorm Athletic Manager, 1950-'51; Freshman Associate Basketball Manager; Undergraduate Tutorial Staff for PBH, 1951-'53; Varsity Club...
Brad Stark (Danster)--Student Council Incumbent; Chairman, Extracurricular Activities Committee; Ass't Treasurer, Combined Charties...
...Pope Paul Ill's master of ceremonies, Monsignor Biagio da Cesena, objected to the many nude figures in Michelangelo's Last Judgment. In revenge, Michelangelo rounded out the picture with a caricature of Biagio as Minos, a character from Hades with ass's ears and a serpent around his midriff. When Biagio protested, the witty Pope replied: "If the painter had sent you to purgatory, I would have done my best to get you out. But I have no influence in hell...