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...Where the f------- is the damn boy?" Marisleysis says they shouted at her. She begged them to hold off, she says. "I will give you the boy; just put the guns down!" As they raced through the rest of the house, the agents knocked over a statue of the Virgin Mary and a huge picture of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in the living room. Finally, they kicked their way into the bedroom, breaking the door in half...
...especially, development moves out of town while perfectly good urban property is abandoned. Perverse incentives often encourage the trend. Banks deny mortgages in declining neighborhoods, and environmental regulations may make it more expensive for a developer to reclaim an abandoned urban site than to build on virgin land outside the city. But places like Baltimore, Maryland, and Chattanooga, Tennessee, have proved that downtowns can be revived. President Bill Clinton in 1996 signed an Executive Order requiring all new U.S. offices to be placed in urban areas if possible, preferably in historic buildings...
...have much in common. But in Divine Mirrors: The Madonna Unveiled, curated by Melissa Katz at the Davis Museum at Wellesley, they do. The exhibit combines works of art on these subjects with a text rich in Biblical reference and historical detail to show changing perceptions of the Virgin Mary in different cultures over the past nine centuries...
These parallels and contrasts, when seen in conjunction with works showing Mary calmly accepting Gabriel's news or holding Christ in Il Pontoricchio's 16th-century painting "Madonna and Child with the Infant St. John the Baptist and Saints Andrew and Jerome," illuminate different qualities of the Virgin as portrayed by artists over the centuries...
...categories Annunciation, Nativity, Adoration, Holy Family, Passion, Veneration and Coronation, based on the eight-part prayer cycle known as the Hours of the Virgin, provide a good thematic framework for arranging the paintings, drawings, sculptures, photographs, manuscripts and mixed-media artifacts, mostly drawn from the museum's permanent collection. Less successful is the semi-transparent veil of cloth which enshrines several sculptures and paintings in the center of the room. Creating the illusion of a chapel is an original idea, but out of context in the setting of a museum...