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...large pieces of paper, were transferred onto the wet plaster by dusting charcoal through the pinpricked outlines, or by cutting along them. The ceiling's highly complex scheme includes the creation of the world, the fall of man, a parade of figures who foretold the coming of Christ, and many purely decorative nude men, known as ignudi. Michelangelo studied the anatomy of the male torso intensively. It's no secret that he was attracted to men, but he also used rippling muscles and contorted postures to express emotion, drama, suffering and even deep religious feeling. In the red chalk studies...
...CHRIST'S CONFIDANT Jesus said to him, "Step away from the others and I shall tell you the mysteries of the kingdom...
CLEARED. Dan Brown, 41, whose 2003 novel, The Da Vinci Code, was denounced by the Vatican for "falsify[ing] the figure of Christ" on its way to becoming one of the best-selling (40 million copies) adult novels in history; of allegations that he lifted a theme--that Jesus married Mary Magdalene and had a child--from another book, The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail; in a verdict by Britain's High Court that clears the way for next month's release of the film version of the book, starring Tom Hanks; in London. Brown, who acknowledged reading Blood...
...final decision the day after receiving a thunderous response to a speech he gave in Washington at a War on Christians Conference on March 28. "The enemies of virtue may be on the march," he said, "but they have not won. And if we put our trust in Christ, they never will." He said the adulation convinced him he could do more good for the conservative movement on the outside than in government...
...post as majority leader last September. He will be long remembered for the big grin he struck in his mug shot when he was booked. "I said a little prayer before I actually did the fingerprint thing and the picture," he said. "My prayer was basically, 'Let people see Christ through me. And let me smile.' Now, when they took the shot from my side, I thought it was the fakiest smile I'd ever given. But through the camera, it was glowing...