Word: infernos
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...early portraits are maladroit Ingres, and he was almost incapable of bringing off large biblical or literary compositions: his late painting of Dante and Vergil menaced by the she-wolf at the edge of the Dark Wood has to be one of the most bathetic illustrations for the Inferno ever made--not only the animals but the poets themselves look stuffed...
When the hour of execution finally arrives, the killers will be transported from their bunkers in airtight, fire-resistant containers. At the death house, they will be loaded onto conveyor belts, stripped by remote-controlled machines, then plunged down a chute into a 2700-degree F inferno. Anything that comes into contact with these untouchables during their final transport--wraps, pallets, gloves--will be incinerated as well. Thus America will bid an unsentimental farewell to 30,600 tons of chemical weapons...
...Expository Writing Program, Nancy Sommers has done a commendable job improving the program. While the Sosland gift rewards Sommers' innovation, the staff wonders if undergraduate writing is served best by the decision to endow the directorship. The first Sosland Prize--$500 and a copy of Dante's Inferno--represents only a small fraction of the family's gift to Harvard. If the Sosland's $2 million gift were deposited in a modest savings account, the money awarded to students each year would be recouped in fewer than five days...
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...