Word: herod
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bred, praised in the salon, an officer of the Legion of Honor, a mature and respected figure with a strong academic bias. The fictional hero of A Rebours, that absurd purple monster des Esseintes, was described as owning two of his paintings. One was the elaborate Salome Dancing Before Herod, 1876 (see color page...
...work became, as Kaplan stresses, a curious synthesis of extravagant, imaginative decor with an almost pedantic spirit of academic research. Of this synthesis, Salome Dancing Before Herod is the masterpiece. Perhaps it is not, in formal terms, a great painting. But it is quite unforgettable, suffused by apprehension. Salome is less a dancing girl than a priestess, absorbed in her solipsistic gesture, gliding on point across the inlaid floor. In the brooding Herod, the standing executioner, the vista of Moorish arches and sifting gloom, one sees the apex of the kind of sensibility that in the hands of a Cecil...
...Hairy Star." According to some biblical interpretations, a bright comet appeared over Judea around 7 B.C. shortly before the birth of Jesus. Oracles told King Herod that the "hairy star" was the harbinger of the birth of a boy who was destined to outshine the monarch himself. To thwart that threat to his supremacy, Herod went on a rampage of infanticide. In A.D. 451 a comet blazed overhead as Attila the Hun overran Gaul on a march that culminated in the invasion of Italy. A comet, depicted in the famous Bayeux tapestry, also appeared...
Above them towers the stone wall that Herod the Great erected around the Temple Mount of ancient Jerusalem. More than 50 ft. below the top of the southern facade, a group of American girls hacks away with picks at the gray, lifeless earth. When they fill their two-handled rubber baskets, they pass them on to a chain of perspiring, bare-chested male students who carry the rubble to the surface...
...drive Mom and Dad out of the room either. All of us really got off on the choreography, all that whirling and all those wild costumes. But the most important moments for all of us were the quiet ones. When those hassles with the Pharisees and Pontius Pilate and Herod started in, there was a hush in the screening room like a temple. And personally, I want you to know that when things really started coming down on you, with the whipping and crucifixion and all that, my old lady wept -wept. She wanted me to be sure and tell...