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Divine Mirrors concludes with a look at representations of Mary in the 20th century. Gertrude Tiske's "Portrait of Mary" (1920) depicts a young woman with red braids in a yellow dress and checkered apron. The portrayal of Mary as an ordinary woman provides a stark contrast to the exalted portraits of earlier centuries, which showed Mary as saint, regal queen or grieving mother. Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, an artist living in Boston, gives a striking interpretation of the Holy Family in eight photographs of a mother and father embracing their son in turn. Only the child is visible...
Natsios' first decisions on the job have been forthright and encouraging. He has swept several top Kerasiotes deputies out of office. In stark contrast to his predecessor, Natsios vowed full disclosure of financial information, saying "[The media] are going to have more information than they're going to want to print...
...support of Hinckley's day-trips. "John Hinckley is profoundly remorseful," Levine told me. "He regrets this event more than anything. He is haunted by what he did--more so than when he was sick and didn't fully understand what he had done. Now he understands the stark horror of his actions...
...single white professor who is more interested in keeping knowledge from his black students than sharing it with them. The characters in Kennedy's play-intelligent and capable African-Americans trying to climb a ladder towards success specifically designed to keep them down-live in a world apart. A stark, empty, isolated world...
...that it is almost impossible to name, though a play like The Ohio State Murders makes it impossible to ignore. Ultimately, Stern and Kennedy were right to draw this most troubling layer of human cruelty out of an already troubling script-and to draw it out with such beautiful, stark imagery that we cannot help but watch in horrified awe. Although it is Alexander's children who are murdered in Kennedy's play, it is Alexander herself that the American educational system tries to kill though an unnameable suffocation. And lest we think America has moved beyond such quietly murderous...