Word: crucifixion
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...Chagall could not long escape into the world of theater and ballet. The disasters of war inflamed him, and in 1943 he painted the Yellow Crucifixion. Amidst acidic yellows and greens, Vitebsk burns, a ship sinks, a ladder is half-posed to remove Christ from the Cross. In his Falling Angel, begun in 1923 and not finished until 1947, the whole world violently disintegrates, with a rabbi fleeing with the Torah and an angel hemorrhaging down through a tempest-torn...
Throughout the debate, it was apparent that the forces of the segregationist South were beaten-and knew it. "The way things are," North Carolina Democrat Sam Ervin said wryly, "I don't think I could even get a denunciation of the Crucifixion in the bill." When Georgia's Richard Brevard Russell, field general for the segregationists in a dozen civil rights battles of yore, returned to the Senate chamber from a long illness the day before the cloture motion came to a vote, he needed no more than a glance to see that the cause was hopeless...
Across the table from us a young man with a straggly, pointed heard was explaining the crucifixion. "Christ was in an extremely yang condition after carrying the cross up the hill. While he was nailed to it--which made him more yang--his disciples gave him vinegar on a reed. Vinegar is very yin, and it paralyzed his nervous system, which is also, yin. He got even more yin when they placed him in a damp cave. The paralysis didn't wear off for three days...
...turn on the raising of Lazarus from the dead, a much-debated episode that he underscores with the Gloria-in-excess of Handel's Messiah. Handel nonetheless seems an improvement over the sepulchral strains of Composer Alfred Newman's background meditations. The Last Supper, prior to the Crucifixion and Resurrection at Jerusalem, ludicrously borrows its table setting from Leonardo da Vinci in order not to disturb the public mind with a single fresh conception...
...blue, a color associated with Mary, the mother of Christ, and she cradles Julian in her arms in the agony of a Pietá. Other invocations of Christianity include the fiery end of the world, Christ's years in the wilderness, his marriage to his church, and his Crucifixion. But the mockery in all this is that Albee regards Christ crucified, or any martyr, as having chosen to be "one of the suicides." This internal contradiction prevails throughout the play...