Word: feastings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...religious message is swaddled in what Hollywood calls "production values," e.g., a 3-D tour of Nebuchadnezzar's Palace of the Hanging Gardens in Babylon, the orgiastic rites of a harlot votary of the goddess Ishtar ("Her breasts were encased in golden bowls"), Belshazzar's feast at which a disembodied hand dooms King and country with the famed handwriting on the wall...
...plot may be summarized as the ups and downs of a pack of dull-spirited clods on the greasy pole of Soviet respectability. Will Jurayliov with his uncultured principles continue as factory manager? Will Artist Volodya ever paint anything as good as his big picture of "The Feast at the Collective Farm?" The whole thing is written in Piltdown Prose-both primitive and phony...
...eight: The Tempest, Female Nude, Three Philosophers, the Giustiniani Portrait, the Enthroned Madonna from the Duomo of Castelfranco, Laura, Tramonto, and the Louvre's Country Feast (TIME...
...more carefully respected by his neighbors in the four Indian provinces south of New Delhi than the proud Thakore clansman, Man Singh. Great maharajas and rich, land-owning zamindars came by the score to attend the wedding feast he gave his grandson. Local villagers expressed their admiration for him in reverently hushed voices. Even a government committee set up to examine his affairs in 1952 declared that Man Singh was a man "of no private vices." Nonetheless, the government of Madhya Bharat province could not overlook a police file which recounted in more than one ton of official documents...
...years he has been a saxophone player in the municipal Royal Hawaiian Band, and in his gleaming white uniform he is a sight to see as the band goes marching by. Kane (pronounced Connie) is the fattest member of the band. Last year, after a vacation and a carefree feast of poi,* Peter waddled back to band practice fatter than ever. He measured 5 ft. 7 in. vertically, 4 ft. 8 in. around the middle, and tipped the freight scales at 355 glorious pounds. Eying the statistics, the city's physician decided that it was just too risky...