Word: restorationism
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The painting (24 in. by 38 in.) came to light when the priest of the Church of Lucignano d'Arbia in Monteroni, eight miles from Siena, called in restorers to repair the undistinguished painting that for centuries had hung over the main altar. Preliminary cleaning flaked away the overpainting...
The Country Wife (by William Wycherley) exhibits a panoramic view of sex. Wycherley saw in sex the key to a whole faithless, pleasure-loving Restoration society-a society he exposed by unlocking one bedroom door after another, by unloosing a succession of farcically indecent pranks. The result is about equally...
As the not-for-long-ignorant minx, Julie Harris plays with a fine, broad, jubilant gusto-rapturous over having an admirer, ecstatic at being kissed. Never more skillful than when she is play-acting within a play, she is particularly funny, whenever she is deceiving her spouse. As the most...
Leach, who had advocated a larger defense budget in a speech last week, pointed out that the restoration of this money merely means that cuts will be made elsewhere in the defense budget. "You don't solve anything by robbing Peter to pay Paul," he said.
Tall (5 ft. 9½ in.), slender, exquisite Actress Kendall seems at one moment to have come sauntering elegantly out of a Gainsborough portrait, yet at the next she is helling about the screen like a Hogarth hoyden. There is Kay in the height of Paris fashion, triumphant on the...