Word: saintes
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...schooling. Biographer Lovell's convincing answer is yes. The scholar and legendary white hunter Denys Finch Hatton, Blixen's great love and one of Beryl's many, had helped Markham make up much of the education she had missed. Though her good friend, the aviator and author Antoine de Saint-Exupery, strongly influenced her writing, chronology shows that the work could not have been his. Her third husband, a failed writer named Raoul Schumacher, did some useful editing, but despite embittered statements he made after their breakup, most of her book was written before they...
...poverty, brilliantly accentuated with a few impasto flicks of white light on the dangling threads to give a hint of contrast to * the massive carving of the rest of the forms) to the shrouded face whose eyes Zurbaran loses in blackness to suggest the hermetic nature of the saint's vision. His gaping mouth is doubled in the gaping eye sockets of the skull he clutches. The eyeline is set low, so that the saint towers over you even as he kneels. The light snatches the forms out of an eroding darkness; the shadows suck them back in again...
...Pacheco wrote in his Art of Painting. "If it possesses, however, force . . . and seems round like a solid object and lifelike and deceives the eye as if it were coming out of the picture frame," the lack of those qualities was forgiven. The real image made Christ or a saint real, ready to speak to you from the wall...
...filmmakers will not leave it at that. The movie is preachy and laden with speeches that hobble the narrative. Intricate political positions are drawn with a numbing oversimplification. All South African policemen are sadistic slobs with warty faces. Nelson is an immaculate martyr, always stoic. Winnie is a saint. But for all its flaws, Mandela does dramatize a country's deadly turmoil. "South Africa has been locked off for so long," says Woodard. "I'm hoping for other movies. Mandela is just one star in a huge black...
...author and judge, this bear of a man has a professional reputation that tends to portray him as straitlaced, rigid, predictable. But there are a few twists. The predictable conservative venerated Socialist Eugene V. Debs as his boyhood hero, and his vote for President in 1952 was for that saint of the liberals, Adlai Stevenson. The man who was raised a Protestant and is now an agnostic married a Jewish woman, Claire Davidson, as his first wife; as a widower in 1982, he married a former Roman Catholic nun, Mary Ellen Pohl. The celebrated foe of judicial permissiveness indulges enough...