Word: medievales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite the tale's complexities, the characters are simple, except for Danny Kaye. Glynis Johns, is also a veteran of the Walt Disney-type saga of the Middle Ages, has by now learned how to be a comely wench in the best neo-medieval style. The most slippery of the...
It would not be entirely right to say the movie is built around Danny Kaye because it tries, at first, to be a parody, and a rather subtle one, of Hollywood's own breed of medieval extravaganza. The turning point seems to come after Roderick, gurgling, "Wenches, laughter, song! That...
William Baziotes' Pompeii is also a sophisticated vision rather than an outpouring of feeling: he saw something like it in his mind's eye. Rumpled, testy Mark Rothko produces pictures as smooth and calm as a cup of cambric tea. His Orange Over Yellow might make a handsome...
Shortly after the first scrolls were found, some charged that the manuscripts were medieval, not of the Christian era. Skeptics felt that it was impossible for the scrolls to have survived through the centuries in a Palestinian cave. Others said that they were complete fakes, imported from outside and designed...
The favorable response found by the "jury-tapping" charges comes in part from centuries of lawyers treating the jury like a medieval mystery. A typically absurd example of this is the age-old rule of Vaise v. Delaval barring evidence of jurors' misconduct which comes from the jurors themselves--even...