Word: virginity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Contras announced the ceasefire from Miami, saying it came in response to a call from Cardinal Miguel Obando y Bravo, who is acting as a mediator in the nearly six-year-old conflict. The cease-fire was to mark the Roman Catholic celebration of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary...
...make unto thee any graven image") and the "idolatrous" cult of statues of the Holy Family and the saints set up in English churches, jeweled and gilt and encrusted with innumerable votive offerings. The church's answer was that you did not worship the image itself; you worshiped the Virgin through her image -- a nice point apt to be lost on rustic fundamentalists...
...satire featuring 35 characters, all of them women and most of them harpies, sniping, gossiping and philandering their way through the beauty salons and the drawing rooms of Park Avenue. A showcase for its author's diamond-sharp barbs and her wicked wit ("a frozen asset" is how a virgin describes herself in the play), it opened in December 1936, ran for more than 600 performances and was soon turned into a popular movie. Having proved herself on that front, Luce took off again, this time to tour the world and cover the war for LIFE...
When a composition with many figures worked for Zurbaran, it was almost always arranged in friezelike planes parallel to the picture surface, producing a solemn, stiff effect (sometimes hieratic, more often creakingly earnest), as in his paintings of St. Hugh and the Virgin of Mercy for the Carthusians at Las Cuevas. This was an archaic, almost Gothic patterning -- inside which his genius for simplified form could produce the most ravishing episodes of detail, as in the folds and loopings of the monks' white habits in The Virgin of Mercy. It is one of the things that commends Zurbaran to modernist...
...John Fletcher said, 'Jessica, you're going to be doing something tremendous for God,"' according to Hahn, who told Playboy she was a virgin and had gone on two dates before meeting Bakker...