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...candlestick-cum-reliquary depicting the flight into Egypt, borrowed from a church in Gaeta, is an exquisite example of how late medieval French styles penetrated into Italian taste at the end of the 14th century. Bernardino da Foligno's late quattrocento bust of St. Balduino has a grave nobility and an intensity of modeling that, one supposes, the saint's living features could not have had. (The actual head of St. Balduino, like a stone in a peach, lies encased within the sculpture...
...sure the Catholic bishops [Dec. 1] know the Prohibition amendment failed because it was unenforceable, and that to make an antiabortion law partly successful it would be necessary to revive the Holy Inquisition with the rack, wheel, auto-da-fé and burnings at the stake-all for the glory of God and the loving, gentle Jesus Christ...
...chief of staff of the armed forces, President Francisco da Costa Gomes warned all organizations in Portugal not to start demonstrations on behalf of the imprisoned leftist soldiers. "We will not be intimidated," his communique read -and this time the leftists were aware that the government would back up words with deeds, and even arms if necessary. The government nationalized all but one of the country's radio and television stations and suspended 30 employees who had urged workers to join in the November revolt...
...imagined landscapes were either writhing with fearsome organic life or else stupendous and desolate. When Frans Post, a traveling 17th century artist, painted a view of the Sao Francisco River in Bra zil, a lone capybara by a cactus tree took on the ruminative air of a Caspar Da vid Friedrich monk, contemplating the infinite. "What a fabulous and extravagant country we're in!" exclaimed the great naturalist Von Humbolt...
...three major air bases and two other air-force installations, along with Air Force headquarters in downtown Lisbon. The moves were well-coordinated, and the leftists, who had earlier taken over Lisbon's television station, began broadcasting anti-government propaganda. The rebels then waited for President Francisco da Costa Gomes, known to some of his detractors as "the Portuguese marshmal-low," to give in to their demands, which included the ouster of Air Force Chief José Morais da Silva...