Word: denning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Daniel in the Lions' Den is an early Rubens, dating near 1610. It was a popular Biblical subject for Flemish artists. But other representations were pallid compared to Rubens', who, according to Rosenberg, "gets to the heart of it, the drama and significance of the story." Other artists' lions were "only little toys, poodles," by comparison. In keeping with the Renaissance adoration of man, Daniel is more hero than saint...
...coiled-spring power. And it is within the painting's faithfulness to nature that the miracle becomes more believable. Remains of their former meals lie scattered in the foreground. Amidst their curling manes and rippling bodies, Daniel is impaled by a shaft of light that slashes into the den. The sheer force of the composition points directly at the baroque style then in its flowering...
...studio set belonging to TV's Death Valley Days was furnished as a comfortable den, complete with bookcases and a crackling fire on the hearth. The man who paced back and forth as he spoke over TV to his fellow Californians was obviously used to being before the cameras. He smiled intermittently, carefully turned his head from left to right, delivered his lines with feeling. At 54, Ronald Reagan, who has ap peared in 50 movies, emceed a General Electric-sponsored dramatic series on TV and lately acted as host on Death Valley Days, was playing an unaccustomed role...
Three-Ply Wall. Since it is impossible to observe such a process in living man, the investigators had to reconstruct their evidence from the dead. Cardiologist Meyer Friedman and Dutch-born Physiologist G. J. Van den Bovenkamp of the Harold Brunn Institute at Mount Zion Medical Center persuaded pathologists in hospitals near San Francisco to send them the occluded segment of coronary artery from each heart-attack victim on whom they had performed an autopsy. The two researchers sliced the coronary specimens crosswise, and after examining countless paper-thin specimens under the microscope, worked out the sequence of a typical...
...which account for the strange flavor of my music." With the aid of a Government loan, she entered the University of Massachusetts, studied Oriental philosophy and elementary education. An honor student, she graduated in 1963 and went to Manhattan, sat in on a hootenanny at a Greenwich Village folk den, was immediately offered a recording contract and nightclub dates...