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...Resurrection, in which Christ flies out of the sepulcher in a blaze of gold glory, watched by the prostrated Roman soldiers, is rendered magical by the red flush of early dawn that appears along the black profile of the hills. In a panel of another broken-up altarpiece, Saint Anthony rejects the temptations of a pile of gold the Devil put in his path. The gold, however, was for some reason scraped off and repainted as earth, so that the saint appears to be overreacting to the sight of a nearby rabbit...
...might a Sienese religious conservative have viewed the early 15th century's incursion of reality upon the Gothic-Byzantine, iconic tradition. The ragged gray-brown outcrops that appear in the background of Saint Anthony Tempted by a Heap of Gold are hardly the result of fantasy and are recognizably based on the gullies and crests of Le Crete, the bare hills southeast of Siena. And by the end of the quattrocento, in Benvenuto di Giovanni's image of Christ on his way to Calvary, the landscape is real and full of fantastical character: a Roman soldier like an armed Boschian...
Still, Testimony is a powerful drama, the tragedy of a man who had to betray himself in order to survive. "The filmmakers did not make a saint of Shostakovich," observes Volkov of the movie. "There are no saints in real life. He is shown as a man forced to compromise on minor things to save himself for more important things." It is a Faustian bargain few composers would like to face, even if they could write a lifetime of masterpieces in return...
...perimeter are a group of sharp-shooters the Crimson must contain. Dwight Pernell, a 6-ft., 1-in. junior, is averaging 28 points a game. Pernell, who averaged 15.7 points a game last year, hit 36 in the season opener against Mount Saint Mary...
...they came to know the children in their jobs as nurses or social workers. They got together for the first time as a group with the help of Rachel Rossow, who works for the state's department of children and youth services in the oxymoronic capacity of consultant and saint. Except at this monthly meeting, in one of their homes, they don't talk about what they do. They use pseudonyms and avoid the word AIDS, especially around the children. They don't want neighbors shouting epithets at them. Some of them have not told their families because they want...