Word: blacking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hill through olive groves, past herds of goat and sheep, come the worshipers on Christmas Eve to the quiet Judean town. Peasants walk to Bethlehem wearing medieval costumes, silk-hatted diplomats swirl into Manger Square in black limousines. And in entering the Church of the Nativity, all bend low to pass through the tiny door called The Needle...
...members of an occult school in Media and Persia that specialized in astrology. No one knows how or when tradition turned them into kings and gave them names and ages. Caspar, King of Tarsus, was often represented as a beardless youth of 20; Balthazar, King of Ethiopia, was a black man of about 40; Melchior, King of Arabia, was supposed to be 60. Their remains were said to have been found by St. Helena, the relic-hunting mother of Constantine the Great, and later brought to Cologne Cathedral, which claims them today...
...sculptor generally attends, like an anxious father awaiting the birth of a son. The bronze comes out orange, blue, red, yellow or gold. But these colors, caused by the firing, rapidly fade. Besides the usual bronze color, the Susse secret acids can produce mordant greens, equatorial blues and glossy black...
...satire, Among the Dangs. The Bangs are a homicidal South American tribe and the reluctant adventurer conned into going among them is a penniless college student who has taken an anthropology course, and who further qualifies, as he notes, by being "a good mimic, a long-distance runner, and black." His university persuades him to go, and when he returns, crawling with data and skin disease, he is rewarded with a lowly academic post...
...Black Orpheus (French). Director Marcel Camus (no kin to Novelist-Playwright Albert) has fashioned an impressive, poetic film from an adaptation of the Orpheus legend. The unknown Negro cast, the graceful transformation of the original, and the breathtaking image presented of life as a tropical carnival earned it the 1959 Grand Prix at Cannes...