Word: thirst
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Stubborn Gentility. At the Académic Julian, with its ateliers crowded by easels and nudes, the young Yankee drank in the French artists' sense of professionalism. He also suffered from a nonacademic thirst for painting nature directly, out of doors. Soon he was outside, capturing with rapid brush strokes the luminous sparkle of Paris streets after quick cloudbursts. Detail dropped out. Against an overcast, his clusters of black umbrellas suggested swollen, devilish halos. Unlike Sargent, Whistler or Mary Cassatt before him, Hassam returned to the U.S. after three years in France. He settled in New York, rendering...
...drunken missionaries, or dissatisfied colonial wives. In Dingaka, South African Writer-Director Jamie Uys does not stint on music and dance, which are an absorbing show in themselves. But the details of native life always remain relevant to this earnest, primitive drama about a proud tribesman (Ken Gampu) whose thirst for vengeance hurls him against the apparatus of white justice in Johannesburg...
...quickly evaporated from their bodies. Gudrun snapped the group again, as they drained their few remaining drops of water from plastic containers. Then they split up, Rimm and Hauser staying by the bus, Wanderscheck and the Bohms setting out for help. They staggered 35 miles before dying of thirst and exposure...
ZORBA THE GREEK. Memorably cast as the hero of Nikos Kazantzakis' novel, Anthony Quinn tramples the grapes of wrath into the wine of life; Oscar-Winner Lila Kedrova is superb as a well-worn jade with a mighty thirst...
...dragging Christ down" to man's level miss the meaning of the Incarnation: that God in Christ did come down to man's level in everything except sin. The Gospels make it clear that Jesus was subject to all sorts of earthly temptations. "Hunger Jesus knew, and thirst. Death He endured. Pride, sloth, envy, desire for power, idolatry-all came close to Him and were overcome in favor of the virtues of which they are the perversions." Unless sex itself is interpreted as a sign of man's fallen nature, a view rejected by most modern theologians...