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...Moscow-educated daughter of a wealthy merchant. It was the great love of his life, and he celebrated it in his exuberant 1918 Double Portrait with a Wineglass, in which a violet-stockinged Bella holds the artist up in the air, lifting him joyously above the streets, while an angel representing their daughter Ida hovers overhead...
Hemorrhaging Angel. In 1942, Choreographer Leonide Massine, a fellow Russian, got him to design costumes and sets for the New York Ballet Theater's production of Aleko. Critic Emily Genauer recalls walking in on the two while they were trying to explore the project. Tchaikovsky's trumpets blared over a record player, while Massine dragged Chagall around the room in an unbelievable pas de deux,. Yet somehow the collaboration worked. The premiere, which took place in Mexico in 1942, was a smash success...
...passages from the Protestant edition, includes a twelve-page appendix of notes explaining difficult lines. Most of the changes were made to preserve familiar phrases that have been hallowed by Catholic tradition or to emphasize a point of doctrine. In Luke 1:28, where the Protestant RSV has the Angel Gabriel addressing Mary as "Hail, O favored one," the Catholic version says "Hail, full of grace"-the traditional beginning of the "Hail Mary" prayer. In 17 passages, the Catholic RSV refers to the "brethren" of Jesus rather than to his "brothers...
...Mother the Car, Ann Sothern has died but returns as the disembodied voice of a car Jerry Van Dyke buys. The Smothers Brothers (CBS), who used to be a funny-folk duo, will impersonate a junior executive and his deceased brother who returns as an angel, I Dream of Jeannie (NBC) tells the imaginative story of an aspirant astronaut and Jeannie, a genie (it's a big year for clever names). As played by Barbara Eden, Jeannie is apparently not dead, but she keeps returning just the same...
Into this "vehicle of total esthetic possibility" Dante impounds the complete experience of medieval man-an experience bestial in its earthiness and supernal in its spirituality. Dante sees man reverently and sees him whole: as an ape and an angel, as a worm...