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...another wall, a two-headed woman leaps through the air, with the head and neck of a white woman attached to the crown of her nappy-haired head. The delicate position of her arms and the grace of her ballet-like leap imply that she, like the waltzing couple, finds pride in her appearance. Perhaps, she is unaware of her second head. More likely, considering her posture, she is proud to have garnished a European head, and is unaware of her deformity. Even more disconcerting, perhaps she acknowledges her deformity, and considers it a small price...
Breindel was a leading voice for the Jewish community during the racial unrest in Brooklyn's Crown Heights in 1991 after a Hasidic driver struck and killed a seven-year-old black child...
...Hasidic Jew was fatally stabbed during the ensuing riots. Breindel likened the Crown Heights riots to an American pogrom...
...Crimson expects another Ivy crown but clearly looks beyond the Eight to establish itself as a national-level power. Nothing exemplifies that mentality better than the story Walsh tells of his first Ivy League Championship Series...
...symmetrical antithesis to the Angel Holding the Superscription is the Angel Holding the Crown of Thorns. Though Bernini himself sketched the clay ideas for several of the angels that now adorn the Ponte Sant' Angelo, the marble statues themselves were carved under his direction by his pupil Lazzaro Morelli. Another of the clay sketches for the Tiber River bridge project, the Angel Holding the Tabernacle is an exquisite metaphor in terracotta for the power of divine influence...