Word: lusting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Boston Museum of Fine Arts' recently acquired Ecce Homo (right) helps correct that impression. Unlike Bosch's better-known canvases of nightmare torture and lust, it presents the actual: a turning point in human history. Bosch packed the expressions of the foreground crowd with cruelty and pride and made Pilate a picture of complacency, but these purely human horrors convince the mind as well as the eye. Christ, bound and crowned with thorns, dominates the scene by His gentleness, and speaks through it to the heart...
Gate of Hell. A Japanese legend of quaint war and fatal lust, wrapped in a rich kimono of colors (TIME...
ROUGH WINDS OF MAY, by Nancy Hallinan (425 pp.; Harper; $3.95), is a first novel that leaps like a trout with lust for life. A canny angler, Novelist Hallinan, 34, uses enough bait for three regulation novels: 1) the English family, full of cooings, cluckings, crises and crumpets, 2) the adolescent caterpillar sprouting the butterfly wings of maturity, 3) the Panlike pipings of Bohemia competing with the dull drill calls of middle-class life. Novelist Hallinan's Pan is a fat, wheezing, believable genius named Jubial Kerr who huffs and puffs rude reality into Rough Winds...
Gate of Hell. A Japanese legend of quaint war and fatal lust, wrapped in a rich kimono of colors (TIME...
Gate of Hell. A Japanese legend of quaint war and fatal lust, wrapped in a rich kimono of colors (TIME...