Word: dress
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ever dare point to the incredible ineptitude displayed by painters who clothe their Bible-era subjects in contemporary Italian Renaissance costumes? Are critics as charitable to painters of the 19505 who produced a crucifixion scene with Roman soldiers in U.S. paratrooper garb and with either Mary in a sack dress with a poodle haircut...
...contemporary British artist views the Holy Family in modern dress, see Arthur Fretwell's Flight into Egypt, one of five pictures he painted for the Anglican church of St. Mary the Virgin in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, England...
Halfway through last week's full-dress parade of political troubles, the President fielded two press conference questions on the nation's mission in the long-range struggle with Communism. Chicago Daily News's William McGaffin, quoting from a resolution by a national meeting of Presbyterians, braced Presbyterian Eisenhower on the moral question of U.S. help to countries "where human freedom is utterly dead," for example, Latin American dictatorships...
...rolling stone that starts it all is The Good Guy (Robert Taylor)-he's the one with the prettiest horse-who is about to marry The Girl (Patricia Owens) -she's the one with the gingham dress-when they are kidnaped by The Bad Guy (Richard Widmark)-he's the one with the occupational sneer-who forces them to lead him to The Buried Treasure. First they cross The Bad Lands, then they encounter The Bluecoats, later they come to The Ghost Town, finally they are attacked by The Indians-a tribe of cosmetic Comanches who bite...
...opera house, the master of ceremonies had just murmured to a friend, "The policing of the streets is perfect," when three heavy explosions brought down most of the windows and a candelabra. Outside, the imperial carriage collapsed and the blood of an escorting general spurted over the Empress' dress. Shaken but only slightly scratched, Louis Napoleon and Eugénie stepped from the remains of their carriage into a scene of carnage. One doctor alone reported 156 innocent casualties, including eight dead and three blinded...