Word: grecos
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...Parmalat's most audacious invention: a bogus milk producer in Singapore that supposedly supplied 300,000 tons of nonexistent milk powder to a Cuban importer via Bonlat, a Cayman Islands subsidiary that held the fake Bank of America account. "What struck and surprises me is the simplicity," says Francesco Greco, the senior magistrate in Milan on the case. "It was almost banal...
...Danielle Hobeika ’01 have all qualified for the U.S. Olympic team trials, which begin today in Indianapolis. Though there are two styles of Olympic wrestling, all three wrestlers will be competing in the freestyle competition. This type of wrestling is more similar to collegiate wrestling than Greco-Roman, the other Olympic style...
...eagle statue in Pilate's chambers) and special effects (in the earthquake a man grabs at a rock that breaks off and carries him to a crashing death) take a back seat to the hallowed story and processional pace. H.B. Warner's Jesus is in the gaunt El Greco mode; the scenes are essentially brisk illustrations of the Gospels. Nearly all the dialogue and narrative intertitles are from the Gospels. The exceptions: a few that mitigate supposed Jewish guilt for Jesus' death. Magdalene: "The High Priest speaketh not for the people." And a Pharisee, at the end: "Lord God Jehovah...
...genius known as El Greco started his working life as icon painter Doménikos Theotokópoulos on the Greek island of Crete. He ended it as the undisputed giant of 16th century Spanish art. Ever since they were rediscovered in the 19th century, his dramatic religious set pieces and dark, melancholy portraits have been regarded as groundbreaking, and 20th century modernists claimed him as a brother. But he used an alchemy all his own to fuse old and new for the greatest possible impact - at least, that's what one takes away from the exhibition of his work...
...Late in his life, El Greco painted St. John, whose elaborate vision became the biblical book Revelation, as part of a never-completed altarpiece. The scene may show the moment when the saint meets the souls of those who died for their faith. John is an impossibly stretched figure, throwing up his hands against one of El Greco's typically stormy skies, his face seen in violent perspective. The martyrs seem pallid and rubbery, but the scene has a strange intensity; even the drapery quivers with emotion and vibrates with light. There may be more mundane reasons...