Word: lombardian
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...assistant in San Diego three years ago, when Beathard recommended him to Cooke, Gibbs lost his first five Redskins games without panicking, then began winning at a Lombardian rate. He stresses fundamentals but is willing to lateral on punts. Under Gibbs, Theismann has changed from a slapdash quarterback to an efficiency expert (276 completions in 459 pass attempts for 3,714 yds., 29 touchdowns and only eleven interceptions...
...betrothed to the Infant Christ by the Virgin Mary. It should be a supremely happy occasion, but as Romanino portrays it, the scene is singularly lacking in heavenly joy. The skies are threatening, the nuns troubled, the Virgin sad, the Infant petulant. Miraculously wedding deep Venetian hues, Lombardian realism and Gothic expressionism, the painting seems a superb summation of that place and that moment when the brusque Angst-filled winds from the north began to cool the warmth of Italy's golden age. The high Renaissance was poised before a modern world. Romanino knew...
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