Word: depicting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Gallenkamp, features objects of ineffable fragility and beauty. These include six polychrome ceramic bowls excavated over the past five years at Tikal, the largest of all the known ancient Maya cities. Found in tombs at a site dubbed Mundo Perdido in the Peten jungle of Guatemala, these funerary vessels depict the underworld gods and beasts that haunted the Mayas. One bowl rests on a turtle swimming in a painted, stylized underground sea. Rising from the lid is the symbol of resurrection, a long-beaked water bird...
...father's death in a 100-word statement, Rolf Mengele, 41, briefly expressed "profound sympathy" to concentration- camp victims and their families. A few days later Rolf, with the family's consent, turned over to the West German magazine Bunte a batch of photographs and documents said to depict his father's 36 years on the run. At the same time, Dieter Mengele, one of Josef's nephews, told an Augsburg newspaper that the family had kept silent because "we did not want to risk the necks" of people linked to the hunted...
...formidable reputation, the Faust Symphony, based on Goethe's poem, has never really entered the repertoire. Its high quotient of bombast, so attractive to the romantics, has fallen out of favor today, and its length (more than 70 minutes) can seem excessive. Still, Liszt's symphony, whose three movements depict Faust, Gretchen and Mephistopheles, ought to rate high, not only for its often startling pictorialism, but for its technical skill as well. Conlon and his forces give it a vibrant reading...
...defense attempted to depict Isles to the press as a spurned, vindictive woman, not even faithful to the unfaithful Claus. Puccio, admitting that his client had strung Isles along, said that Von Bulow may have been a "cad," but he was not a murderer. Andrea Reynolds, Von Bulow's thrice-married Hungarian-born companion, told the New York Post: "Alexandra is a very pretty girl, but she is not what I call marriage material." Why not, pray tell? "She doesn't seem to be very monogamous, my dear," sniped Reynolds...
...striking images are among the finest surviving examples of ancient Egyptian art. They depict the passage into the next life of a slim young woman clad in a diaphanous gown, her toenails polished white, her eyes outlined with kohl, her every need seen to by the servants and deities surrounding her. The accompanying inscriptions leave no doubt about her identity: Queen Nefertari, the favorite wife of Ramses II, Egypt's greatest pharaoh...