Word: virgin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...them showered Mae with diamonds, emeralds and furs. Others gave more of themselves. Of a fellow named Ted, Mae sighs: "I had experienced other men who performed as ardent lovers, but never for a period of 15 hours." One suitor whom she discarded, says Mae solemnly, was a virgin when she met him and has lived a life of celibacy ever since...
...Lisa in broad daylight by stripping it from its frame and tucking it under his shirt; he was caught two years later only because he tried to sell it to an honest Florence art dealer. Three centuries earlier, the Duke of Modena became so enraptured with Correggio's Virgin with St. Magdalen and St. Lucy that he had it stolen from the church of Albinea, and it has never been found. In 1876, Gainsborough's portrait of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire vanished from the sales rooms of London's famed art dealers Agnew & Co., was returned...
Extinction in a Station Wagon. As an Orthodox Jew, Author Wouk (who now lives in the Virgin Islands during the winter) is not overly sympathetic to the "improvisations" of Reform or Conservative Judaism, and he finds Orthodoxy hale and hearty despite the stringencies of its demands in the world of the barbecue pit and the P.T.A. There has been, he admits, "a well-known cascading-from orthodox to Conservative, and from Conservative to Reform groups. But Reform does not swell as it might, because of attrition into disinterest and loss of identity. Nor, curiously, does orthodoxy seem to diminish...
...eight-hour performances in which he hangs for 30 minutes on the cross. Then the committee turned to youth. Gabriele Cropper, 1950's Magdalene, who had put off her marriage (though she is 34) because she thought she was in the running for the part of the Virgin Mary, burst into tears when the committee chose Irmi Dengg. a 21-year-old salesgirl. Anneliese Mayr, 20. landed the part of the Magdalene, and Woodcarver Werner Bierling. 28, was named the Apostle John-the only beardless male role. Bearded Bierling promptly visited the barber...
...invisibly small crater among the natural meteor craters on the moon's scarred face. Perhaps it splashed a brief fountain of dust. Whatever it did, the moon could no longer serve as a symbol of unreachability. Man had sent an object from the earth and pitted its virgin surface...