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...lexicon of Baconian imagery is famous. Its most familiar component is the screaming Pope, smearily rising from blackness like carnivorous ectoplasm, his throne indicated by a pair of gold finials, the whole enclosed in a sketchy cage -- homage to an original that Bacon firmly denies having ever seen, the Velasquez portrait of Innocent X in the Doria collection in Rome. There are the Crucifixion motifs, reflections of Grunewald and the Cimabue Crucifixion in Santa Croce that was partly destroyed by the 1966 Florence flood, whose sinuous and near boneless body Bacon once startlingly compared to "a worm crawling down...
...police convoy, Mehmet Ali Agca arrived in a high-security courtroom in Rome last week, presumably to tell a jury that he had been hired by Bulgarian intelligence officials to kill Pope John Paul II in 1981. But as the 27-year-old Turk settled into his white steel cage in a former gymnasium converted to a courtroom, he had loftier matters on his mind. "I am Jesus Christ!" Agca shouted. "I am omnipotent. I announce the end of the world. All will be destroyed." The bizarre outburst in the opening moments of the trial of three Bulgarians and five...
...idea of radicalism, supported and inspired one another in what was then a lonely pursuit. "The collaborative element of those years was crucial," remembers Composer Philip Glass. "I mean, you'd walk down the street and run into Lucinda Childs or Bob Wilson, Laurie Anderson, Merce Cunningham or John Cage. It was like people say Paris...
Isolating Harvard's inexperienced defensemen the Minutemen scored four of their whopping six first-period goals on one-on-one dodges from behind the cage...
Corcoran tallied two fourth-period scores while All-American Co-Captain Rob Hauley pounded an unassisted score. But the Harvard offense is built, Scalise said, around movement by the pair, and with UMass expecting them to take it so the cage, the offense became predictable and less effective...