Word: virginals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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...
...with sex and death, are currently such familiar features of art that audiences will surely delight to find in John Ford such a clever hand at depicting them. Writing in the strange cultural vacuum which preceded the English Revolution, John Ford took old relationships and old labels-husband, wife, virgin, brother, sister-and read into them lurid new meanings...
MORE defeating than any of Antoine's peripheral involvements, of course, is his marriage itself. Christine, in the words of one character, turns out to be the perfect "bourgeois" girl, a virgin before marriage, a domestic. She is nice enough, but she is also a product of the society which Antoine spent his youth trying to outwit. He treats Christine badly in this film, but it is a haphazard cruelty; he picks fights with her over everything from the newly born baby's name to the thank-you letter he must write to the Senator who arranged the installation...
...called it a change from one "non-policy" to another. In other words, the options available are still determined by the individual doctor but the names of those physicians more or less guaranteed to provide services to women are being advertised. "We may be playing too much the blushing virgin," Blaine admitted. "We might be a little more aggressive...