Word: serpenting
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...have marched under many a banner bearing a strange device, from the "Don't Tread on Me" serpent of the American Revolution to the three-headed elephant of Laos. This year 18 new flags were unfurled by the emergent nations of Africa and the Mediterranean. Cyprus boasts the first national flag bearing a map. Mali is the first to emblazon its colors with a human ideogram, employing an ancient African symbol of a man with arms raised to heaven and feet planted firmly on earth, signifying attachment to religion and the soil...
...people Spratling writes about flourished in their amiable fashion between 200 B.C. and the 7th century. Like their neighbors, they worshiped the great god Quetzalcoatl, "Precious Serpent," the lord of wind and sky. And they created in red clay their share of legendary jaguars, frogs, bats and monsters, as well as an array of dolls, whistles and little animals on wheels. But legends and gods, or even toys, were never their primary concern. No people have ever seemed quite so determined to record themselves in the joyful act of just being alive...
...from all over is a letter telling how one Lukeria Sevchuk was converted by Baptists and began to bring pressure on her daughters, Nina and Natasha, to join her in the faith. Nina valiantly held out, but ailing Natasha committed suicide, leaving a note to mother: "You are a serpent. You can now bring your revivalists here. Nobody will bother...
...Oldest and best known is scholarly, affable George Cohen, 40, whose The Serpent Chooses Adam and Eve caused something of a sensation at last year's Carnegie International. In that, as in most of his canvases, Cohen combined deliberately clumsy, pictographic painting with collage, pasting in a round mirror and a hank of Eve's hair. Mirrors, he explains, "are the supreme illusion; they mock both the viewer and the painting." Cohen teaches at Northwestern University, talks well about other men's art but bogs down when it comes to his own nightmarish visions. "I begin with...
...plumbing Loire chateau crammed with impressive horrors: the count's plaintive wife (Irene Worth), who fears for her life because of a portentous clause in her marriage contract; his child-mystic daughter (Annabel Bartlett), who paints pictures of "secret police" shooting arrows into St. Sebastian; a serpent-eyed sister (Pamela Brown) who blames her brother for the death of her fiance; and a dotty old dowager (Bette Davis) who writhes and flops about a cream-puffy bed, smokes cigars and has her morphine served up in toy Easter eggs from Paris. For the lonely professor, there is a lone...