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Word: madonna (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...substitute, the story added, adopted McCartney's singing style but used his natural voice on "Lady Madonna," which sounds unlike McCartney. Beatle producer George Martin wrote the songs for which McCartney has been credited since his "death." LaBour said...

Author: By Jeff Magalif, | Title: Beatle Hoax Rumored: Paul Dead Since 1966 | 10/18/1969 | See Source »

From Big Deal on Madonna Street to How to Steal a Million, film makers have been trying to perfect the genre known in the trade as "caper comedies," films which center around a masterminded robbery. Like most criminals, however, the creators expend all their energies on the heist and not nearly enough building their characters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Britannia Waives the Rules | 9/19/1969 | See Source »

...portrait of St. John Chrysostomos shows how Nubian artists employed subtle shading not only for the sake of naturalism but also to heighten mood. A Madonna and Child dating from around 710 differs from many earlier extant treatments of the subject in that it shows Christ as a baby and not a diminutive adult...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Antiquities: Miracle from the Desert | 9/5/1969 | See Source »

...doors of St. Peter's, and other examples of his well-known religious works, there are lusty compositions of embracing lovers in the spirit of Boccaccio, sensuous studies of Inge in the nude, and a 1967 bust of her that has the graceful serenity of a Donatello Madonna...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Museums: Monument for a Humanist | 8/15/1969 | See Source »

...France seemed finally ended. And it was Marianne herself who broke off the affair. De Gaulle always knew that he was dealing with a woman both fickle and domineering. "The emotional side of me," he once wrote, "tends to imagine France, like the princess in the stories or the Madonna in the frescoes, as dedicated to an exalted and exceptional destiny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The End of The Affair | 5/2/1969 | See Source »

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