Word: crucifixion
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Handed the routine military job of supervising the execution of Christ ("a fanatical troublemaker "), Burton passes the time on Calvary by winning Christ's robe in a dice game. In the earth-shaking storm that follows the Crucifixion, Burton loses his robe, his slave and apparently his sanity. Returned to Italy, he becomes convinced that he was bewitched by the dead Messiah, and accepts an imperial commission to go back to Palestine to investigate the un-Roman activities of the new sect. He finds Mature and the robe at Cana, in Galilee, but exposure to the gentle habits...
...sadism that usually characterize Hollywood's explorations of Holy Writ. The CinemaScope screen is handsomely utilized for swordplay, torture chambers and a thundering chase sequence as well as for dramatic shots of the Way of the Cross and Christ's entrance into Jerusalem the week before the Crucifixion. Alfred Newman's music is especially effective in the Palm Sunday hymn and in a ballad charmingly sung by Betta (South Pacific) St. John...
...show, Boston seemed pretty cool in its reactions. Some gallerygoers complained about Sutherland's deliberately ungainly compositions and harsh colors, wondered "what goes on in the head of a man who's always painting grasshoppers." Said an old lady, back for a second look at his gory Crucifixion: "I dreamt about it last night, and it's haunted me ever since." But for Sutherland fans it was a great moment. Said one student: "It's like meeting a fabulous relative you've always heard about but never met before...
...Rattner, 57, was a camouflage engineer in World War I, returned to Paris after the armistice for 20 years of advance-guard painting. He came home in 1940, now teaches at the University of Illinois. His prizewinning picture looks as if it might have been intended to represent the Crucifixion, camouflaged, or seen through stained glass darkly. But Rattner's explanations are never that simple. Says he: "It is rather an idea related to the need to give men hope and encouragement, and involving the conflicting things that we are confronted with today in our hearts and souls...
...poem concerns the pain experienced on losing close friends, transcribed to Mary's feelings at the crucifixion of her son. Alfred never dwells upon the morbid aspects of death, however. On occasion, he visits old women at a rest home in the area. "It's like a prison for them," he says. "One delightful women there the nurses consider 'silly' because she refuses candy and won't speak. When I realized she spoke French, she replied with a snort, 'I hate the stuff' and we had a fine conversation...