Word: legendes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fidelity to nature was not something new, but no one really expected the extent of the early Pre-Raphaelites' imitating nature. Their subject matter was drawn from the Bible, Greek mythology, and, true to their medieval inclinations, Arthurian legend. Stylistically some of the human figures might look like Botticelli angels or Cranach diptychs. Yet the landscape was always painstakingly drawn from real life. They used magnifying glasses to paint weeds properly; they waited patiently year after year for the return of the apple blossoms to complete a single canvas; they would spend nights painting by a small candle in order...
...ankles of football players for 350 an hour. He is remembered as the "India Rubber Man," a 5-ft. 10-in., razzle-dazzle guard whose suicidal drives to the basket often sent him bouncing off the fieldhouse floor or flying into the seventh row of the Purdue band. Local legend has it that after one memorable spill, he popped in the winning basket while sitting down...
...Bart, the French-born son of a Polish Jewish family annihilated by the Nazis, published The Last of the Just. It was a novel that rose directly out of 700 years of history and anti-Semitism onto the bestseller lists. Schwarz-Bart shaped his book around the ancient Hebrew legend of the 36 just men, whose job it was to suffer mankind's collective grief. Often they were unaware of their divine mission, but collectively, by storing human suffering, they kept it from poisoning the world...
...Guadeloupe, the slaves are freed and the plantations burned. But in 1802 a treaty between France and England reopens the seas to the sugar trade, and bondage returns. Eventually Solitude joins the scattering of rebels, hunts her hunters in a trance of fury and becomes something of an island legend...
...woman, Schwarz-Bart, 44, set out some years ago to write a se ries of novels that would record the hardships of several generations of black women, both in Europe and the Americas. A Woman Named Solitude seems to be an attempt to get it all in - all the legend and history, the com passion and private sentiment, including a parting volley for the victims of the Warsaw ghetto. It does not quite work. Somewhere, not too long after the first chapter, Andre Schwarz-Bart for got that a fable must be a unicorn, not a zebra...