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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
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Neil Steinberg

Why don’t schools ban the Bible?

William Blake’s engraving of Laocoon and his sons is what art historians call “busy.”

OK, I doubt art historians call it that. Doing what journalists call “checking” — consulting the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism — I see the preferred term seems to be “cluttered.”

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