Word: crucifixes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Montmartre Authority. Edith Piaf is still incredibly corny, but with such artful simplicity that the corn becomes completely convincing. Arms akimbo and skinny legs aspraddle, her only jewelry a silver crucifix, accompanying musicians hidden behind a curtain, she stares past the spotlight and pounds honest emotion into some wretched lyrics ("When at last our life is through, I shall share eternity with you"). Since most of her songs are in French, Piaf prefaces them with a dry, straightforward English precis ("She meets her lover; he goes away; she weeps"). But the translation is seldom necessary. Her hands and face...
...square, gable-roofed chapel is topped by a cross and a steeple, which will eventually contain a bronze bell. Inside is an altar surmounted by a reversible cross (plain on one side, a crucifix on the other) and a picture of Christ. Flanking the picture are plaques bearing, respectively, a Star of David and a lotus leaf to symbolize Buddhism. The chapel's congregation contains at least one representative of Protestantism. Catholicism, Judaism and Buddhism, and each will take turns giving Sunday sermons on his faith. The group at first regretted that they had no Moslem, but then decided...
...crucifix lay on his chest and a rosary in his hands in the final hours...
...Cellini literature, built up documentation that a marble Cosimo had indeed been carved by Cellini. A memorandum written by Cellini one year before his death in 1571 itemized his marble work, including the Apollo and Narcissus rediscovered in Florence's Boboli Garden in 1940, a polished marble Crucifix now in the Escorial near Madrid, a bust of the Duchess Eleanora (still lost), and a marble bust of Cosimo. The inventory of Cellini's studio taken after his death also listed the Cosimo, noting that it was unfinished...
...puny and primitive by comparison, at least 10,000 youths are banded into 360 gangs. Members are mostly Chinese, though Malays, Sikhs, and Eurasians have lately joined. The young gangsters dress no differently from anyone else, but their shoulders or backs are tattooed with the signs of membership: a crucifix, a woman leaning against a palm tree, a kissing couple, an eagle clawing a snake. The biggest society, the "24," has 40 separate gangs; its chief rival, the "Zero Eight." numbers 30. Using the titles and ranks of the Chinese secret societies and tongs, the gangs have a "tiger general...