Word: astonishes
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Dates: during 1971-1971
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...David, dancing a jig before the Lord. Exuberance, indeed, was the most endearing characteristic of these relatively provincial Flemish masters. St. Leonard's carved altarpiece of the life of St. Anne-it stands 9 ft. high and contains more than 75 figures-is a virtuoso piece, designed to astonish. But through its mannered intricacies, the dumpy Flemish women and men are arguing and gesturing, holding towels for childbirth, embracing and being judged: it is a fascinating exercise in the reconciliation of Scripture with life as it was lived by 16th century Bible readers...
...along, Royko insists, Daley never abandoned the original set of convictions he grew up with, though as his power increased, it became prudent to appear at least polite to other values. It did not astonish Royko when the mayor stayed inside his modest Bridgeport bungalow-he still lives there in his eminence-and not even the curtains twitched during the few nights in 1964 it took his neighbors to give the heave-ho to two Negro students who moved in a block and a half down the street...
Francoise replied to the public and private sniping in kind. When it was suggested that she might feel or look silly in the academician's green and black costume and cocked hat, she countered: "The frivolity of men never ceases to astonish me. All they want to talk about is clothes...