Word: paled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This exhibit is a Soviet caricature of the Sacrament of Holy Communion. It is depicted in such a gross, revolting and ghastly form that its public reproduction is impossible. The dismembered and disembowelled body of the dead Christ, depicted in a pale green hue, is surrounded by a group of priests, peasants and laymen who are ravenously devouring the flesh and drinking the blood which pours from the Saviour's side. Several of the figures, with countenances of maniacs and ghouls, are pulling forth the intestines and mouthing them...
...Miguel Primo de Rivera y Orbaneja, Marqués de Estella, pale and paunchy exiled Dictator of Spain, sat in his bedroom in the Hotel du Pont Royal in Paris last week writing letters. On their way to church, his two daughters Carmen and Pilar knocked on his bedroom door...
Meanwhile in Paris, diplomats, businessmen, soldiers and lovely ladies hastened to the Hotel du Pont Royal to pay their last respects. There Primo de Rivera lay in state in a brown homespun gown, coarse sandals on his large pale feet, a huge rosary of polished granite beads in his lifeless fingers. The Marquesa de Arguilles and Senorita Mercedes de Castellanos, two ladies whose intimacy with Don Primo had caused many a scurrilous press clipping, came early in the afternoon, gazed sadly at their friend in one costume they had never seen him wear, the habit of a lay brother...
Schizoid types: physically pale, sharp-featured; mentally censorious, nonsocial, preferring routine habits, tending to have their personalities split (schizophrenia); especially apt to be tubercular...
...well acted would have made as fine a movie melodrama as one could ever hope to see. But in the transition from stage to screen, "Locked Doors" suffered a multitude of indignities, and now it appears as a movie, basically the same as the play, but still a very pale copy of the original...