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...models rather than directly from the figure. On his death in 1614, 50 models were found among his effects. Despite disdaining anatomy, he loved the texture of fur, hair, trees and starched linen. St. Jerome as Scholar (ca. 1600-1614) is almost all oversized red cape, silky white beard, fuzzy hair and black eyebrows complete with stray white feelers. In The Crucifixion With Two Donors (ca. 1580) you can almost feel the left-hand donor's crumpled surplice. The other's ruff is scribbled in white paint, and his eye is made to shine with a pure black highlight. This...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Becoming El Greco | 2/9/2004 | See Source »

...Binkley’s beard is coming in the thickest...

Author: By Robin M. Peguero, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Neckbeards Keep Lowellians Warm | 1/26/2004 | See Source »

Binkley said he is not planning on lathering up his neck anytime soon—even though he’s been growing his beard three days longer than his friends because he forgot to shave before the start of the contest...

Author: By Robin M. Peguero, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Neckbeards Keep Lowellians Warm | 1/26/2004 | See Source »

...knows if Saddam?s capture will lead to a reduction of hostilities? But on one thing, everyone seemed agreed. The images, the symbolism, the semiotics of Saddam?s capture were freighted with significance. The fetid hole in the ground, the mud hut, the litter and underwear, the prophet?s beard, the unfired pistol, the tongue depressor - all, somehow, were symbolic of ... well, of what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Semiotics of Saddam | 12/29/2003 | See Source »

...soldiers from the Raider Brigade of the Army's 4th Infantry Division who dug him out of the 8ft.-deep spider hole; the palace monster of monuments and torture chambers had been reduced to the life of a bug. His captors picked through his shaggy hair, the raccoon beard. They scraped his throat, checked his teeth. "Merry Christmas," said the soldiers to one another, and they lit cigars and took pictures and smiled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Saddam's Capture | 12/22/2003 | See Source »

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