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- 1From:New Coin Poetry (Vol. 56, Issue 2)You should have let the story leave on its own terms. I warned you not to trap that soul in that coldness; You couldn't even buy it decent shoes or Ray-Bans or at least close its eyes shut. Now each time we pass this...
- 2From:World Literature Today (Vol. 90, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedTranslations from the Portuguese By David Shook Conceição Lima is a Santomean poet from the town of Santana in São Tomé. She studied journalism in Portugal and has worked in radio, television, and in the print press...
- 3From:Notes and Queries (Vol. 45, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThe phrase 'Statue of Surprize' in 'Joseph Andrews' has spawned analogous expressions in other literary works. In Cibber's version of 'Richard III,' a phrase goes 'each like statues fix'd, speechless and pale,' while the...
- 4From:Atlanta Review (Vol. 20, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedStatues of Antinous are everywhere and you run into them in unexpected places--Amsterdam, New York, Vienna--where you recognize a teenage boy who might have taken off his clothes to change for soccer, with a mop of...
- 5From:Rapa Nui Journal (Vol. 30, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed(Source: www.bloomberg.com) An opinion piece by Bloomberg View columnist Mark Gilbert from March 2016 highlights an image of Hoa Hakananai'a in the British Museum, being photographed by visitors, with the caption...
- 6From:Apollo (Vol. 177, Issue 606)Statues do furnish a square. Nations and cities have long desired to erect conspicuous monuments to the great and the good, the royal and the victorious, in public spaces. Such statues, whether the single figure or the...
- 7From:Victorian Studies (Vol. 52, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAs an increasing number of British women traveled to Greece in the nineteenth century to witness the sites of antiquity, a small group of women turned their gaze to the local population, beginning lifelong studies of...
- 8From:Antiquity (Vol. 79, Issue 303) Peer-ReviewedA new survey and spatial analysis enables the author to argue that inland examples of Easter Island's famous stone statues were not in transport to the coast but mark out ancient territories proposed by ethnologist...
- 9From:Nine (Vol. 20, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIn August of 1968, Stan Musial's status as an iconic figure of St. Louis baseball was underscored with the unveiling of an enormous statue memorializing him as the quintessential Cardinal. This monument to Redbird...
- 10From:Government Computer News (Vol. 21, Issue 4)According to ABC News, the attorney general last month ordered draperies made for two large, partly clothed Art Deco statues of a man and a woman in the Justice Department's Great Hall. Justice may be blind, but not...
- 11From:The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide (Vol. 25, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedA new statue of St. Dominic was unveiled at the Blackfriars Priory School in Adelaide, Australia, and it wasn't long before the pupils were clamoring to be photographed next to it. The subject was the miracle of St....
- 12From:Apollo (Vol. 172, Issue 581)This article looks at the final days in Paris of the imposing marble statue of Napoleon as Mars the Peacemaker (Fig. 1) by the celebrated Venetian sculptor Antonio Canova (1757-1822; Fig. 2). It was dispatched to London...
- 13From:The FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin (Vol. 78, Issue 9)On the plaza of the Culture Center at the state capitol in Charleston is Fallen Partner, a memorial to law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty in West Virginia. Designed by a local sculptor, the 7-foot...
- 14From:Australian Aboriginal Studies (Vol. 2014, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe Aboriginal reserve Cherbourg (Barambah) has a sporting record probably on par with that of Cummeragunja [reserve in Victoria], Albeit with a much larger population, it has produced some outstanding football teams...
- 15From:Nursing Standard (Vol. 18, Issue 26) Peer-ReviewedA COMMONS motion calling for the achievements of Mary Seacole to be honoured with a statue has won the backing of more than 60 MPs. The RCN has been demanding such recognition for some time, a call it renewed in...
- 16From:World Literature Today (Vol. 85, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedEditorial note : A review of The West and Southern Barbarians will appear in our November 2011 issue. John Mateer was born in South Africa and lives in Australia. He has published several collections, the most recent...
- 17From:Mechanical Engineering-CIME (Vol. 124, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedLike many of his fellow workers, 48 -foot-tall Hammering Man, who stands outside the gate at the Seattle Art Museum, took Labor Day off. It's the only holiday he gets each year. Any other day from 7 a.m. to 10 o'clock...
- 18From:Mechanical Engineering-CIME (Vol. 112, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedStage Set They're building a sliver sky-scraper over at the U.N.," my secretary Anne informed me one August morning. I glanced out the office window and noticed a long, narrow hole in the lawn of the United Nations...
- 19From:African Arts (Vol. 46, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedFor better or worse, the colonial legacy of Queen Victoria lingers in Africa through the names of numerous parks, gardens, squares, streets, islands, lakes, forts, and only Google knows what else. The annual procession...
- 20From:First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life (Issue 242)An "undue source of stress" and "inappropriate and potentially harmful." So says Wellesley college student Lauren Walsh. The object of her concern? A lifelike statue of a man in his underwear. Called The Sleepwalker (an...