Word: virginals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...plebeian beer has long since acquired its own stout band of connoisseurs. By contrast, little attention has been paid to the fine points of enjoying America's own proud indigenous beverage-ubiquitous, multi-flavored, effervescent soda pop. To remedy that omission, California Novelist Earl Shorris (Boots of the Virgin) has set down some obiter dicta in San Francisco's Sunday Examiner & Chronicle. Tongue firmly in cheek, he sounds a clarion call to those who prefer pop to other drinks but feel that it is socially unacceptable. "Drink what you like," he advises. "Don't be discouraged from...
...Gilbert Stuart's Martha and George Washington have few equals (not to mention Boston's John Singer Sargent canvasses). If Van Der Weyden's Christ Appearing to His Mother makes the viewer sigh, he should take a look at home- Van Der Weyden's Saint Luke Painting the Virgin, in Boston's permanent collection...
...most sensitive passages in any Bible translation are those that deal with doctrine. The N.A.B. retains "virgin" in Isaiah 7:14, considered a prediction of the Virgin Birth, rather than the "young woman" favored by recent Protestant versions. Several footnotes are used to explain verses apparently contradicting the Catholic dogma that Mary and Joseph never had sexual relations even after Jesus was born. One of these states that the New Testament word for the "brothers" of Jesus could mean either blood brothers or merely relatives, but the N.A.B. sides with the latter. In Acts 17:26, the N.A.B. follows other...
Within the screen, one viewer sees a configuration of the Virgin Mary, another a storm at sea, a third the blossoming of an exotic tropical plant. But the Kalliroscope is more than a Rorschach in flux. It is also a work of art, a study in hydrodynamics, a patented invention, a decoration, a toy-and with sales already exceeding 15,000-one of this year's most successful novelty items...
...reminiscent of Viridinana: a beautiful young girl dressed in black enters the home of her guardian (Fernando Rey, who also played the uncle in Viridiana ); she becomes his mistress, then his wife; she destroys him. Loss of innocence is a favorite Bunuel theme, and Deneuve's progression from blond virgin to black widow is a passionate, nearly religious journey. What most marks the film is the blend of heresy and humanism for which Bunuel is distinguished...