Word: hives
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Originally, beehive paintings were crude designs to ward off evil spirits; favorite subjects were the Madonna, the saints, and especially Job, the patron saint of beekeepers. As the generations progressed, painted hives became a status symbol; prosperous owners hired itinerant painters to decorate each hive with as many as 60 panels. Styles be came baroque, subjects sly and secular, with folk tales and local gossip pre dominant. One panel, dated 1890, may have been done by an artist who knew his subject all too well. It shows a red-shirted farmer, holding a beehive, as he falls from a ladder...
Well, I'm a king bee, buzzing 'round your hive...
SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL and RIGHT YOU ARE are studies of one of the most active and lethal parts of the human anatomy, the wagging tongue. In Richard Sheridan's high comedy, a hive of busybodies is undone. In Luigi Pirandello's philosophical drama, a nest of vipers invades the privacy of a family and destroys the tenuous balance of their lives. The APA again...
SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL and RIGHT YOU ARE are studies of one of the most active and lethal parts of the human anatomy, the wagging tongue. In Richard Sheridan's high comedy, a hive of busybodies is gleefully exposed and undone. In Luigi Pirandello's philosophical drama, a nest of vipers invades the privacy of a family and destroys the tenuous balance of their lives. The APA again...
...Hive After Hive. From those 20 imported African queens have come as many as 450,000 new bees a year almost none of which inherited the traits of the Italians and Germans that fathered them. Quick to anger, even quicker to swarm, the new Africans lave turned on Italian and German bees tor no apparent reason, killing off hive after hive. Moreover, the new males passed their bad blood on to new females, who went on propagating the angry strain. "We thought that when they got acclimated they would become civilized," says Father João Oscar Nedlel...