Iconic Italian journalist, Oriana Fallaci, 77
Obituary for crusading Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci.
Obituary for crusading Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci.
The Getty Center\’s upcoming exhibition \”Holy Image, Hallowed Ground: Icons from Sinai\” (Nov. 14-March 4) provides a great opportunity to ponder these religious confluences, while also coming almost face-to-face with some of the earliest, and most beautiful, images in Christian art.
In the aftermath of thedeaths of Princess Diana and Mother Teresa, every woman I know hasparticipated in some version of \”The Goddess or the Saint.\” We\’vetaken sides, debated our husbands and boyfriends, our mothers, ourfriends. At Torah study last Saturday, we weighed the two women interms of a moral dilemma: The princess or the nun, the glamour or thegrit. Our choice of icons defines our lives.\n\n