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Word: chapels (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...death came for the Archbishop cuts deep into the soul of El Salvador. At 6 p.m. on March 24, 1980, Oscar Arnulfo Romero, the Archbishop of San Salvador and an outspoken critic of the military terrorism that was ravaging the country, was celebrating Mass in the small, humid chapel of the Hospital of Divine Providence. As he delivered his sermon, a gunshot shattered the calm of the ceremony. The Archbishop toppled to the floor, his heart pierced by a single bullet. Blood stained the white altar cloth. Bending down to give the gray-haired prelate a final kiss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Central America Grave Encounters | 12/7/1987 | See Source »

...testimony comes from Amado Antonio Garay, 37, a chauffeur for retired Army Captain Alvaro Saravia Merino, an associate of D'Aubuisson. In late March 1980, said Garay, acting under Saravia's instructions, he drove a dark-skinned, bearded man to the Hospital of Divine Providence. Outside the chapel, the man got out and ordered Garay to pretend he was tinkering with the car. A moment later, Garay heard a gunshot. Immediately the bearded man emerged from the chapel and got back into the car. It was only then that Garay realized the man had a rifle in his hands. Returning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Central America Grave Encounters | 12/7/1987 | See Source »

...find a probable example, the organizers of this show had to borrow an exquisite polychrome Christ from Norway, where it had been made by a traveling English artist for a church in Bergen around 1230-45. Just as in the greatest monuments of English Gothic today -- the Lady Chapel of Ely Cathedral, say -- one sees only the bare background of a decorative and sculptural scheme whose figural richness can never be restored or even reimagined, so the remains of medieval sculpture that have been assembled for "The Age of Chivalry" cannot really evoke the culture whose mutilated envoys they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Blazing Exceptions to Nature | 11/30/1987 | See Source »

Barry continued playing for Fox Chapel High School before earning a starting position on the Crimson squad her first year at Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Determined to Make Memories | 10/24/1987 | See Source »

...Great Gatsby, but as we look back, the political powers keep fading. What does anyone know about the petty princelings who ruled Germany in the time of Bach except that they were not very kind to Bach? What does anyone know about the Pope who built the Sistine Chapel except that he hired Michelangelo to paint the ceiling? What does anyone know about who was king of anywhere when the Book of Genesis was written, or the pillars of Stonehenge erected? As Gore Vidal once tartly summed up the role of the artist in society...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: What Really Mattered | 10/12/1987 | See Source »

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