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...bustling 32-acre plant outside the Brazilian town of Sao Bernardo do Campo last week, coveralled workmen proudly rolled a pair of shiny new compact cars off the assembly line. Hardly had they done so when William Max Pearce, 49, general manager of Willys-Overland do Brasil, announced his plans to send the two cars-the first production models of the new Aero-Willys 2600-to Paris for next month's international auto exposition. Pearce and Willys had reason to be excited. The Aero-Willys is Brazilian from taillights to engine block-the first car to be completely designed...
From the earliest work, Florentine Bernardo Daddi's 14th-century twin-panel altarpiece of Virgin and Child and The Last Judgment, to the latest, a 1948 still life by Matisse, there is hardly a masterwork that reflects turbulent emotions Enthusiasm there is, such as in Degas' pastel Singer with a Glove, but most portrait subjects are caught in repose: Manet's pipe-puffing Smoker, Tintoretto's velvet-clad, regal Venetian Senator, Joos van Clève's Mater Dolorosa...
...become elaborate and verbose. More and more, painters and sculptors began to concentrate on the episodes surrounding the birth of Jesus, and Renaissance nobles as well as churches began to commission cribs. In the early isth century the talk of Florence was a presepio designed by the young artist Bernardo Buontalenti for the son of Cosimo de Medici. One historian described it as "most singular and new, for not only did one see the heavens open and clouds descend while a quantity of angels flew about and came down to earth, but the innumerable figures all walked toward the holy...
...always saying Hail, Mary! on my travels ... I say it in my own natural and sincere way when She turns up in the temples and tombs of Egypt and among the gods of Hindustan-Hallo, Mary! For you really cannot get away from Her . . . She favours Brother Bernardo with special revelations and smiles at his delighted 'Hallo, Mary!' When I write a play like The Simpleton and have to deal with divinity in it She jogs my elbow at the right moment and whispers 'Now Brother B. don't forget...
...Named for gallant Count Bernardo de Galvez (1746-86), Spanish governor of Louisiana and viceroy of Mexico. His motto, now Galveston's: Yo solo (I alone...