Word: hunchbacks
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...include protection of the guilty. The Justinian Code of the Byzantine Empire, for example, denied church sanctuary primarily to criminals convicted of high treason or sacrilege. In medieval Europe, churches were allowed to protect convicted criminals-like Esmeralda, the condemned witch and murderess of Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre Dame-on condition that they forfeit all their property and belongings to the state. The privilege of church sanctuary began to give way during the Protestant Reformation, and there has never been any legal precedent for it in U.S. jurisprudence...
...seminude courtesan tries to seduce a hunchback as his image mocks him from three mirrors. Fashionable men and women strip to nearly topless leotards and pantomime a sordid orgy. A bearded astrologer chants about immortality while peacocks scream. In a gloomy garden, a man embraces a sculptured minotaur, seeing in it the face of his brother. Statues spring to life in an eerie dance...
...games she played made enemies, among them that ingenious hunchback, Alexander Pope, whose ferociously witty verses proclaimed that Lady Mary was greedy, stingy, adulterous, Lesbian, syphilitic-and on top of that she wore a dirty smock. His attacks were sickeningly effective. In her 40s Lady Mary faced a painful prospect: her name was muck, her marriage a byword, her looks a fading memory. In moving lines she said farewell to the love she never found...
...sound, fluttery echoes-are largely corrected. Critics say machine has flipped circuit; their ears hear otherwise. Musicians say now it is like playing in the bottom of huge barrel. Conductor George Szell, after conducting at hall for four weeks, describes panel's contribution: "Imagine a woman, lame, a hunchback, cross-eyed and with two warts. They've removed the warts." Schuman decides back-to-work...
...many critics see a clue to his stunted gnomes in their resemblance to the deformed dwarf, Oskar Matzerath, of German Novelist Günter Grass's bestseller, The Tin Drum. As Antes seeks to show life from a different perspective, so Grass's Oskar, a moral hunchback who reaches his third year and refuses to grow any more, sees the world from chair level. There are striking parallels, too, between writer and painter. Both were born in the decade that spawned Nazism, both learned their ABCs in Hitler schools, both burst on the cultural scene...