Word: marias
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...great river may be diverted into a system of ducts to irrigate fields." But how to embody this concept? The first angels in Christian art look like ordinary men, whether painted on catacomb walls or preserved in mosaic on the 5th century walls of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome. What the artist stresses is the power of assuming human shape and walking among men, who "entertain them unawares...
Dickens' feeling of being let down by his mother was the first of several jolts to his self-indulgent idealization of women. At 21 he tried to place a girl named Maria Beadnell in the role of an angelic object of worship. She ended by jilting him. Later he cast his wife-the bland, slightly perplexed daughter of one of his former editors-as the traditional loyal helpmeet. She seems to have ended by boring him. The result was that in his fiction he was never able to display a fully rounded view of women. Even his most memorable...
...bigami are Vittorio De Sica, who became a French citizen and got a French divorce to marry his second wife, and Carlo Ponti, who went the same route to wed Sophia Loren. Under the new law, Gina Lollobrigida can Italianize her 1968 Austrian divorce from Milko Skofic, and Maria Callas can shed Giovanni Battista Meneghini, from whom she has been separated for eleven years...
Impressionists and Impressionism by Maria and Godfrey Blunden. 238 pages. Skira...
...think I'm Onassis' best friend, and he's mine," said Diva Maria Callas, who descended on New York City and told Women's Wear Daily a thing or three. About her best friend's wife: "I'm bored with all the nonsense about how I was furious with Jacqueline Onassis. The fact is, I've never actually met her." About love: "Love is so much patience between two people. But it takes work, and you have to give a lot, and have to receive also like a flower. It is also somewhat...