Word: crucifixion
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...Biblical researchers will miss the boat if they do not interrogate Senator Gene McCarthy as to his post-election feelings. I am sure they will discover just how Judas Iscariot felt after the Crucifixion...
...brushwork is highly personalized and uninhibited. The earthy zest and pounding rhythm of Luca Giordano's 1702 Crucifixion is all the more remarkable because the artist turned out his work at maximum speed; in his day, he was known as Luca fa presto, or Fast Worker Luca. Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini's Fall of Phaëthon is built of thin, semitransparent layers of oil paint and has a lightness that the finished fresco undoubtedly lacked (the sketch has outlived the fresco, which was destroyed in World...
...Andreas, an even more active leftist, was thrown in jail and later exiled. Last Easter, when the house arrest was lifted, the old warrior responded with a typically unrepentant statement: "This year, the day of our Lord's resurrection, coincides with the anniversary of our people's crucifixion...
...black evangelism. Some of his more ardent followers adopted stage mannerisms in which they appeared to be seized by God; they tore off their clothes, called for witnesses, collapsed and rose up again. The bespangled James Brown's whirling, convulsive performances have even been analyzed as enactments of the Crucifixion...
This year, the day of the Lord's Resurrection coincides with the anniversary of our people's crucifixion...