Word: infernos
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Until Sunday, visitors may take a trip to hell through the striking and weighty prints of artist Michael Mazur and the powerfully interpreted text of Dante. The gallery's current exhibit "The Inferno: Monotypes by Michael Mazur," is a collection of the 38 monotype prints and eight studies which Mazur created in collaboration...
...press release by the Boston University Art Gallery, Pinsky is quoted commenting on Mazur's interpretation of Dante: "Mazur's images grow out of the poem, but not out of conventional apprehensions of the poem...[They] added another reality to my idea of the Inferno's visual meanings...
...essay was titled "The Prophet and the Professor: Temptation of the Intellect in Flannery O'Conner." According to Hagan, the prize was a $500 award and a copy of Dante's Inferno...
Before there was Waco, there was Ruby Ridge. As an episode in the annals of right-wing panic, the 1992 shoot-out and siege at the Idaho cabin of white separatist Randy Weaver ranks second only to the inferno of the Branch Davidians the following year. Federal agents in body armor and black ninja uniforms, armored cars crashing up hillsides, even the fabled helicopters of militia nightmares-Ruby Ridge had all the elements of a paranoid fantasy, with the difference that it was stamped in real flesh and blood. In the 11-day standoff, Weaver's wife was shot dead...
...flight deck, igniting the 30 planes waiting to fly sorties. Thirty seconds later, another Japanese suicide flight dropped out of the sky and struck the Bunker Hill amidships, ripping open a 12m. hole with the blast of its 250-kg bomb and turning the fast carrier into an inferno for the next six hours. Of the 3,000 crewmen on board, 353 died in the smoke and flames. The kamikaze attacks were part of the Japanese navy's Ten Go (Operation Heaven), which sent 1,465 volunteer pilots on suicide missions against Allied ships during the assault on Okinawa, then...