Word: brawlingest
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Dates: during 1956-1956
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...more effete Romans across the river, the proud Trasteverini pay homage to saints and sinners alike in a fortnight-long Festa de' Noantri-the Festival of Us Others. The celebration begins with a solemn procession in honor of the Madonna del Carmine, for as well as being the brawlingest quarter of Rome, Trastevere boasts the first church ever built in Rome to the glory of the Madonna. But with the procession over, the solemnity is at an end, and for two weeks the alleys of Trastevere echo to the bellowing of bawdy street songs as the Trasteverini give themselves...
...Biggest, brawlingest and richest ($7,975 in prizes) local art annual in the U.S. is held by Chicago's Art Institute. Last week, as usual, Chicago's 59th annual blew up in a storm of local outrage. Reason: of the 24 cash awards (picked from 2,027 works submitted), 18 went to relative unknowns, e.g., the top painting award ($1,500) was won by Canadian-born Anna P. Baker, 27 and two years out of art school, for a hectic, minutely squiggled abstractionist canvas titled High Frequency Ping. Almost every big-name Chicago artist finished...
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