Word: safrai
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...Israeli army's chief of staff in the Six-Day War of 1967. Scores of mourners brought candles to stand sentinel over both Rabin's private home on Rabbi Ashi street in Tel Aviv and his official residence in Jerusalem. Said one mourner in Jerusalem, pharmacology student Dganit Safrai: "This is the end we can expect for someone who makes peace. He was so strong, it seemed as if nothing could happen...
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...most striking aspect of the Pucker Safrai Exhibit is a painting by Picasso. "Femme au Fauteuil," painted in 1948, reflects the shell-shocking influence of the Second World War. It depicts a woman in two-dimensional, almost paralyzed, form. Her stare is blank, and she appears so confused that it appears vapid...
...Pucker-Safrai Gallery at #173, a couple of blocks from the Public Library, is currently exhibiting a collection of Marc Chagall's graphics, in honor of his 90th birthday. Chagall's art has the surreal. fantastic quality of a fairground where the sideshows never end. He depicts horses and riders cavorting inside sitting rooms and paints the moon suspended from the branches of a potted plant. His figures generally ignore the dictates of Isaac Newton. People glide, lean, float and spin like marionettes. Sometimes they are gigantic, towering ever a pink Eiffel Tower like the Harlequia-costumed "Magicien en Rose...
...portion of its spirit by painting or sculpting it) the chances of success in the field were much greater. What may appear pure ignorance and superstition to Western man has produced some of the most expressive works of art known. The collection of Eskimo sculpture in the second Pucker-Safrai gallery is a perfect example of an art free of preconceptions about its own nature, unhampered by stultifying theories. These soapstone carvings of Arctic wildlife were created by artists who hunted the animals they sculpted. And apparently the best carvers are also the best hunters...