Word: reigns
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...three punches. I'm throwin? punches in bunches." A long line of opponents surrendered to his lasered rage; they toppled like Wooden-Soldier Rockettes in the Radio City Music Hall Christmas Pageant. More than Joe Lewis or Marciano or Ali, Tyson seemed set for an uninterrupted 15-year reign...
...plans of my initial dreaming: the sushi bar built over a tank of live fish (how postmodern!); the dumpling restaurant with a twist, where mac and cheese or duck l’orange would be served up in crisp wonton wrappers or savory shumai shells (titled, for its brief reign in theoretical existence, “Dim Sumthing Else”). A few lucky listeners had even become privy to my newest conception of culinary excellence, still turning and tweaking, and much too precious for the pages of such a widely-read campus magazine. But to dream of my eventual...
...painting, now featured in an outstanding new exhibit at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts (MFA). The exhibit, “El Greco to Velázquez,” will run through July 27, 2008. It showcases dozens of works from the 23 years of the reign of Philip III, a period that was bookended on either side by the careers of renowned Spanish painters El Greco and Diego Velázquez. The exhibit also features several lesser-known artists, obscure even in Spain, who worked in the Spanish court and collectively bridge the gap between...
...measure the reign of a religious leader not by sermons or doctrinal documents, but by signs, that moment in Poland is arguably the most significant chapter of this three-year-old papacy. A German pontiff, 60 years later, crosses paths with a rainbow on the grounds of Auschwitz, a word from the sky for that which we have no words...
Though it's not the only subject of this wonderful exhibition, co-curated by Ronni Baer of the Boston MFA and Sarah Schroth of the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, one of the show's plain lessons is that during Philip's reign, Spanish painters perfected the means of bringing recognizable human beings into their art. Spain may have been a center of Catholic piety, its eyes always fastened on heaven, but its paintings were full of vital, supple people made of real flesh and blood...