Word: nun
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even when treating subject matter as weighty as religious prejudice, Joyce always embraces the reader with his humor--"it's very hard to bargain with that kind of woman. They say it was a nun who invented barbed wire...
...Nun with Anna Karina and Liselotte Pulver...
...personages that rear up on the tiny horizon of Always the Best Man Wins, 1920. And sometimes it discloses an erotic fury, a Dionysiac madness bursting the collar studs and corsets of life, as in the collage-narrative The Dream of a Little Girl Who Wanted to Become a Nun, 1929-30. In a secular age with its "therapeutic" religions, we find it hard to imagine the power of blasphemy to the Surrealists. All the same, Ernst came up with the funniest antireligious joke in modern art -- the famous (and, alas, rarely seen) parody of a Renaissance Madonna, in which...
...profile throughout the crisis, Saddam Hussein once again succeeded in yanking Israel back to center stage. Only this time, Israel responded by ending its game of hide-and- seek and adopting very public preparations for striking back. "Our pilots are in their cockpits," declared air-force commander Avihu Bin-Nun on state- owned television as he stood in front of a fully armed F-15 equipped with external fuel tanks for the more than 500-mile trip to Baghdad...
...more than 34,000 U.S. women chose some form of reconstruction in 1988, up 71% from 1981, according to the American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons. Younger patients are particularly drawn to the procedure, though Hugo has reconstructed breasts for women of all ages and types, including a nun...