Word: testamental
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...artist was running out of strength, canvas, paint, alcohol, morphine and time. The show's keynote is the 1.39-m-by-3.75-m Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? (1898) from the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Intended as Gauguin's final testament, the panorama "reads" from right to left, from infancy to death. The despairing figure of old age, seated with head in hands, echoes the position of a Peruvian mummy Gauguin saw at the Paris Exposition of 1889, the colonial extravaganza that was one of the catalysts for his Tahitian wanderlust...
That perpetual bestseller has taken on new robes in Revolve: The Complete New Testament, a glossy-paged Holy Book disguised as a teen fashion magazine that asks such serious questions as “Are You Dating a Godly Guy?” and reveals beauty secrets like “You need a good, balanced foundation for the rest of your makeup, kinda like how Jesus is the strong foundation in our lives...
...Bible-turned-magazine has attracted plenty of media attention, but perhaps too little scholarly analysis. As Revolve itself declares, the New Testament is a very serious piece of work—“the total good news.” FM decided to get some serious analysis...
Assistant Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity Laura Nasrallah respectfully declined to take the same quiz, but she did offer analysis...
...annual eight months on the road, experience and excess left their marks on his face, like a hammer pounding tin. He had the battered charisma of an action-movie star who did his own fights. Here was a man who had earned his craggy good looks, his Old Testament God voice, his unique hold on the pop-cultural imagination. Here, three generations of music lovers agreed, was a man--in all his imperfections and grandeur...