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...idea of Zurbaran, as the art historian Yves Bottineau points out in the catalog, was fixed more than a century ago by the Romantics. His paintings of cowled monks and saints in meditation seemed to connect with spectacular areas of Romantic fantasy -- the dungeon beneath the cloister, the Grand & Inquisitor's icy hand on the red-hot iron, and an obsession with trance, death and the link between faith and cruelty. This Zurbaran was more or less written into cultural existence by Theophile Gautier in 1840, on a visit to Seville...
Parts of one woman's body were found in the freezer, and pieces of bone were located elsewhere in the kitchen. In the dungeon-like basement, furnished only with a portable toilet and two mattresses, three half-naked women clung to life. Two of them were chained to sewer pipes; the third was imprisoned in a shallow open pit covered with plywood weighted down by bags of dirt. Said Chief Inspector James Gallagher of the Philadelphia police department: "It was ghastly...
From the bitter opening invocation "Look down, look down," intoned by prisoners in a dungeon, to the anthemic rallying cry "When tomorrow comes," sung at the finale by the spectral dead of revolutionary 19th century Paris, the musical version of Victor Hugo's epic novel Les Miserables is a melodrama inflamed with outrage. Its politics always matter more than its love stories. Many of its principals die in violence or grief, but the most unprincipled of them endure and thrive. Like Nicholas Nickleby, staged largely by the same team, Les Miserables denies itself the indulgence of even a muted happy...
...about the high point of his life, when Dorothy Gish praised one of his performances. There is a lot of good, broad comedy in Three Amigos!, notably an encounter with a singing bush that knows only public domain songs and Martin's turning an attempt to escape from a dungeon into a parody of a Nautilus workout. Under John Landis' slaphappy direction, the movie does not always bounce that wildly off the wall. But Monty Python would not entirely disown it either...
...after getting back to Nuremberg, he forged a promissory note to extract money from a businessman he believed had cheated him; Stoss, by now a man in his late 50s or early 60s, was branded on both cheeks for that. In later years he was in and out of dungeon and lived under a cloud of civic disapproval, while Durer, some 30 years his junior, dined with humanists and councilmen and enjoyed a life stipend from Emperor Maximilian...