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...Freedberg, who admits to not caring for American art, is an expert in Italian "mannerist" paintings. This decadent school following the great period of rennaissance can be recognized by attenuated figures and women gazing maukishly heavenward amid swirls of skillfully painted drapery and arabesques--interesting to him perhaps, but to ordinary bread eating mortals like ourselves they are better for giving away than viewing...
...score of Aristotle Onassis' closest relatives and friends offered prayers in Ari's behalf. Afterward, worshipers completed the ceremonial rite of passage by eating from a specially decorated 44-lb. loaf of bread-a symbolic act to send the soul of the late shipping magnate heavenward...
...Saturn and other celestialities." Although he was turned down for summer employment at Princeton's observatory after being asked one question - about his calculus grades - Wilhelm later became TIME'S science correspondent in Washington, D.C. Now in the Los Angeles bureau, Wilhelm has frequently turned his attention heavenward while following Apollo, Mars, Venus, Mercury and Jupiter space missions...
...blind singer and the melancholy solo of a reed flute, they threw off their voluminous black cloaks, symbols of the tomb that they believe encases the soul. Slowly and gracefully they began to revolve, their long white skirts billowing into circles. Gradually they extended their arms, one palm turned heavenward to receive divine grace, the other toward earth, symbolically dispensing the grace...
...stay exactly the way it is. But they have in kindred spirit a sense of orderliness, of tidiness. They are fond of saying that their political stance is 'evolutionary, not revolutionary.' It was in this meaning that Richard Frank, vice president of Schenley Distillers, Inc., rolled his eyes heavenward and summed up his political desires: 'Please don't rain...