Word: virgin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...review of Miss Bette Davis' Virgin Queen: that your reviewers fail to recognize a great performance is understandable, but that they make loud and noisome puns is as unforgivable as the popcorn bags I am sure they rattle. It is some relief that not all critics have found the Virgin Queen "strictly corn of the realm...
...USUALLY KIND TO ACTRESS BETTE DAVIS IN THE PICTORIAL DEPARTMENT, THEREFORE IT CAME AS A SHOCK WHEN YOU DID NOT PUBLISH A PORTRAIT OF HER ELIZABETH. OBVIOUSLY, YOU DID NOT WISH ANYONE TO SEE THE VIRGIN QUEEN BALD. I SHOULD THINK YOU WOULD HAVE SAVED US THE TRIAL OF GOING TO THE MOVIE JUST FOR CURIOSITY...
...Virgin on the Verge. To Sodom, of course, the girls surreptitiously go. There Marjorie meets Noel Airman (real name: Saul Ehrmann), who has red hair, a handsome profile and the glamorous job of putting on revues at South Wind. To the despair of Noel's aspiring, pimply assistant, Wally Wronken, Airman is a triple-threat man-an artist, a libertine and an intellectual who can shred phony highbrows "like a flame thrower...
Recognizing the beauty of Assisi's Temple of Minerva, the citizens turned it into a church dedicated to the Virgin Mary. Correggio, commissioned to paint edifying decorations for a convent, included a Punishment of Juno to point up the perils of false pride. Taddeo di Bartolo decorated the chapel in Siena's Public Palace with a procession of Roman virtues-Prudence, Force, Magnanimity, Justice-plus Jupiter in his sun-god aspect, Mars thundering by in a boxlike chariot. Minerva. Apollo, Aristotle, Caesar, and the Roman general Manius Curius Dentatus...
...restoration of the "Madonna concept" of woman to combat "sexualism and virulent attacks on family life." "The world seems to have gone sex crazy," he told the National Catholic Women's Union. Women must be restored to a position of "sacred dignity" and play the role of the Virgin Mary in "home, neighborhood, community and nation...