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...this point the film threatens to trail off into rich boy-poor girl romance. But suddenly Jacques fades from interest; the story jumps forward five or six years; and the direction of the narrative changes completely. Marie is no longer the poor (but honest) farm girl, virgin down to the calluses on her bare feet. Now, openly contemptuous of her father's self-inflicted integrity, she has taken to sneaking off to the woodshed with Gerard, leader of an adolescent gang that rides around on motorbikes...
...self-consciously the moral virgin and too facile with her received wisdoms and doubts, Gloria is far less lovable than such fictional older sisters as Christopher Isherwood's Sally Bowles (I Am a Camera) or Truman Capote's Holly Golightly (Breakfast at Tiffany's). Herlihy's lively stock characters and head-shop props come directly from Aquarius Central. Yet The Season of the Witch has its appeal, especially if regarded not as an adult book but a contribution to an as yet nonexistent publishing category-groovy books for juveniles...
Also in the Early Italian Room is a five-panelled work by Simone Martini, The Madonna and Child, With Four Saints. This work is the only complete Martini altarpiece of so large a size that exists outside of Italy; this was another Berenson acquisition. The panels' depiction of the virgin and saints anticipates the poetry of a later Italian artist, Modigliani...
...Roman Catholic, as a supporter of the free expression of ideas, and as a believer in the virginity of Mary, I offer Ti-Grace Atkinson my apologies for the outlandish behavior of Patricia Buckley Bozell [March 22]. Never before has the Virgin Mary required the use of arms-or hands-to defend her. Mrs. Bozell was rather presumptuous to think that Mary now needed her intercession...
...gallery bought it for the equivalent in cash and tax relief of $1,920,000. It was the second highest price ever paid by the museum for a work of art, topped only by the $2,240,000 paid for Leonardo da Vinci's cartoon of the Virgin and Child with St. John the Baptist and St. Anne...