Word: virginal
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...main themes is The Holy Family, a collaboration between Jan Bruegel ("the Velvet Bruegel," to distinguish him from his father, Pieter) and a virtually anonymous fellow Fleming, Pieter van Avont. With pagan profusion, Bruegel lavished his brushwork on the garlands shaped like an M in homage to the Virgin. Incorporated into the salady festoon are samples of all that the hothouses, orangeries and private zoos of Flemish aristocracy could offer. Roses and carnations are mixed with more pungent garlics, cabbages and peppers; common wheat is intertwined with pumpkins and artichokes. Even a capuchin monkey in a clown costume drags...
...confrontation, as in the cloaks, of liquidy greens and reds. The carved and gilded frames are showpieces of Gothic craftsmanship, but within the woodcarving can be seen classic marble columns, first tentative annunciation that the new spirit of the Renaissance was beginning to blow through German art. And the Virgin is no longer hieratic and remote; she is instead a distillation of young girlhood and Bavarian beauty...
...West Virginia, their romance flourished-thanks to long-distance telephone calls and jet airliners. In recent months, they have been sighted holding hands at Senator Robert Kennedy's Hickory Hill party for Diplomat Averell Harriman and walking arm in arm at Caneel Bay in the Virgin Islands. In Positano, a lovely cliffside Italian resort on the Tyrrhenian Sea, they displayed what one observer described as "certainly a fondness...
Throughout Georgy Girl, three girls sitting behind me sniffed into their kleenex and morosely ate chocolate kisses, one at a time. They clearly identified with Georgy (Lynn Redgrave), the dumpy 22-year-old virgin on the screen, and bawled sympathetically for 105 minutes...
...mysterious awareness of who Christ was and what he signified. Thus his post-Resurrection appearances to his discipies may have been, in a sense, apparitions of an extraordinarily magnetic and convincing kind. Pike accepts the Resurrection, interpreted this way, as evidence for his faith in eternal life. Like the Virgin Birth, the Resurrection may well be a mysterious event, understandable only to the eye of faith and not historically verifiable in the way that Jesus' death on the cross can be authenticated. Nonetheless, theologians insist that the Resurrection has a profound, inexhaustible meaning for man. To Harvey...