Word: crucifixes
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...puny and primitive by comparison, at least 10,000 youths are banded into 360 gangs. Members are mostly Chinese, though Malays, Sikhs, and Eurasians have lately joined. The young gangsters dress no differently from anyone else, but their shoulders or backs are tattooed with the signs of membership: a crucifix, a woman leaning against a palm tree, a kissing couple, an eagle clawing a snake. The biggest society, the "24," has 40 separate gangs; its chief rival, the "Zero Eight." numbers 30. Using the titles and ranks of the Chinese secret societies and tongs, the gangs have a "tiger general...
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...very Catholic exposition involves a waif who is left before the gates of a Franciscan monastery, is taken in by the monks, strikes up a friendship with a crucifix in the attic and is apotheosized at age five in a very unconvincing sequence as Marcelino Pan y Vino...
...time. Each inhabits a monastic cell, a single room equipped with a cot, a spindly desk, one chair, a chest-of-drawers, a closet, and a lamp. There is a wash basin in one corner and a bathroom down the hall. The only adornment on the wall is a crucifix. Simple white curtains frame the window...
...Edmund Castell Bacon's stately English home, Raveningham Hall, in Norwich, for as long as anyone could remember, one painting, St. Jerome in Penitence Before a Crucifix, attributed to Giovanni Francesco Caroto, a minor Veronese painter, had hung in the library. Sir Edmund liked it so well he moved it to his bedroom, away from the rest of the fine collection of Gains-boroughs, Reynolds, Turners and 17th century Dutch painters. "I often paused on my way to bed to admire it," recalls Sir Edmund. "I always regarded it as a most beautiful picture...