Word: cheeke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Christopher replicas to win the protection of a patron saint," said the Rev. Martin L. Goslin of Seattle's Plymouth Congregational Church, "but how much do we do for a moral frame of mind? Assuredly we are called upon . . . not necessarily to enjoin people to turn the other cheek, but more appropriately to turn the other fender...
Life-loving Milles could not resist adding grace notes of Puckish humor to the attendant figures, two angels and a faun. To visitors who came to see the all-but-complete figures in the studio, Milles did his tongue-in-cheek best to explain away the oddities: "Why is there an angel playing the flute? Horses love music, didn't you know? Why did I put the angel on one side? Don't you think God sends his people down to see what we are doing? The other angel has a wristwatch; I don't know...
...doctored cards into the show's regular mail. The kids told the story to the cops, and when two detectives came for the Machiavellian milkman, he tried to take it on the lam. A warning shot fired over his head ricocheted off a building, hit him in the cheek and landed him in the hospital. Said his wife: "I tried to get him to quit, but all he cared about was that show...
...Arachne disappeared after the Archduke Charles of Austria sacked the Torre de la Parada in 1710. But Rubens' oil sketches, delivered to Philip with the finished works, were bequeathed to a worthy duke and survived in various Spanish and Belgian art collections. Virginia's Director Leslie Cheek Jr. got his Rubens from a Manhattan art dealer...
...Cheek feels that he has double reason to rejoice at his new find. First, he points out, "it was done at the height of Rubens' powers, and for one of his most important and knowing clients." Secondly, Rubens at the time was running one of the greatest picturemaking factories in all Europe, and most of the work was carried out by Rubens' apprentices. But, notes Director Cheek, "there's no doubt about our sketch. Its proven pedigree goes back to the moment it left Rubens' hand, which is more than we could say of the finished...