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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Cecil B. DeMille undertook to portray Jesus in his 1927 film King of Kings, he established a style of reverential spectacle that endured for decades in such religious pageants as Ben-Hur, The Robe, the remake of King of Kings, and The Greatest Story Ever Told. In recent years the interpretations have become broader. Jesus was a fierce champion of the oppressed in The Gospel According to St. Matthew, a crucified clown in Godspell, a befuddled mystic in Jesus Christ Superstar, a well-intentioned charlatan in The Passover Plot. A Danish producer is even trying to turn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Franco Zeffirelli's Classical Christ for Prime Time | 4/4/1977 | See Source »

Although I knew that most Tunisian women still covered themselves from head to ankle in the traditional "safsari" robe, I was startled just the same as I stepped off the plane in Tunis Airport to see a mass of white-sheeted figures on the airport's observation deck. The sight of these women waiting for their husbands and sons, probably laborers in Marseille or Munich or Milan returning home for a vacation, instantly created an exotic mood, despite the modernity of the airport. I suddenly felt myself in the Middle East...

Author: By Ricky Goldstein, | Title: Shedding The Safsari | 3/29/1977 | See Source »

...neared these women it struck me that they did not look mysterious and alluring in their safsaris, as in Arabian Nights or in my fantasies. They looked anonymous and shapeless. Almost every woman gathered the folds of the robe at her throat with one hand and clutched an infant or a bag of vegetables with the other. Their identical, self-effacing garments (which, however, are not religiously sanctioned, and do not veil the face) and their burdened hands bespoke the modesty and servility which characterizes the Muslim woman everywhere...

Author: By Ricky Goldstein, | Title: Shedding The Safsari | 3/29/1977 | See Source »

Southie's only representative was Kevin Dorian, who entered the ring wearing a robe with "Sinn Fein, South Boston," emblazoned on the back. But Dorian's "fighting Irish" background did not surface during the fight...

Author: By Michael A. Mccalabrese and Gideon R. Mcgil, S | Title: When Irish Eyes Are Smiling | 3/21/1977 | See Source »

Another statuette, "Woman Seated in an Armchair Wiping Her Left Armpit," does less to observe the limits of good taste. The woman subject, towel in hand, is twisted around on an armchair, her attention unabashedly focused on the intimate task at hand. The robe slumped formlessly over the back of the chair only adds to the inelegance of the action. And underneath this action lies perhaps the most cruel aspect of the pose: the woman's squat. Her corpulent legs half spread and half closed, and her behind perched unattractively on the very edge of the chair, the pose obviously...

Author: By Mark T. Whitaker, | Title: Where Classicism Meets the Left Armpit | 3/9/1977 | See Source »

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