Word: golgotha
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...horrible in her ugliness, that she would stand out from the rest of the company as a monster." The painting in question was Millais's Christ in the Carpenter's Shop, 1849-50, whose image-little Jesus hurting his hand on a nail, in prefiguration of Golgotha-might strike a modern eye as lavishly sentimental and winsome, but was overrealistic to Dickens...
...inframusical turbulence by mirroring, and milking just about every dead-end trend in rock 'n' roll. After flirting with the transcendelic movement (Listen to the Flower People), Spinal Tap went heavy-metal, with two-hour twin guitar solos and the eeriest special effects this side of Golgotha. The group's album Intravenous DeMilo went bronze (just two levels below gold), and Tap flourished despite the tragic demises of a series of drummers-one spontaneously combusted onstage another choked to death on vomit (not his own). Now the group has come to tour the U.S., and Moviemaker Marty...
...Gold Rush to Golgotha...
...train fares by telling obscene stories to chief Ticket Inspector Semyonych. He is Oedipus, parrying the ribald riddles of a drunken Sphinx. He is Dante descending through the Moscow circles of Hell, his Virgil a bottle of Stolychnaya. And in the tragic denouement, Erofeev becomes Christ on Golgotha, crying out in anguish "Why, oh Lord, did you forsake...
Such images, and others like Elijah Pierce's elaborately carved wooden panel of the Crucifixion (about 40 figures, including blacksmiths forging nails for the cross and a moon raining blood on Golgotha), are not meant to be "imaginative" in any arbitrary way, though they are deeply expressive. Their aim is to bear witness, to teach. Sometimes they do it in oddly naive ways: Pierce's carving of one person straining at a gnat while another literally swallows a camel, the beast halfway down his throat, comes out of the same impulses that drove the Romanesque carvers at Vezelay...