Word: artemisia
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...decided to get away from America for the winter by renting a villa in Nice. It turned out to be a dank monster, out of town but nowhere near the sea, with camphorated neighbors. The view consisted of a rectangular, tiled pool hedged with silvery artemisia bushes; at one end stood a garden-gnome lump of a reproduction putto, coyly peeing into the water. Beyond that, some straggly shrubs, a screen of cypresses and a few glimpses of the house next door, as ugly as hers-and, most of the time, rain. So much for Dick and Nicole Diver...
...idea of a feminine sensibility-fluffy, vaporous, pink-and-white-retreats before most of the work in this show, the sense of female experience does not. That theme is announced almost at once, in the work of Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1652), the daughter of a well-known Tuscan painter, who became, as Nochlin puts it, "the first woman in the history of Western art to make a significant and undeniably important contribution to the art of her time." Gentileschi's Susanna and the Elders (1610) is a work of staggering precocity, painted when she was 17. Beauty spied...
...century. (Its seeds also enjoy fame as a baldness cure.) Without herbs, the world would not have that honored amorific, the martini. Coriander seed is not only used as a spicy seasoning but is also reputed to be an erotic stimulant and is used to flavor gin. And Artemisia, or wormwood, is an essential ingredient of vermouth. Martinis may not have been served at King Arthur's court, but wormwood undoubtedly found its way into the royal flagons. In the permissive Middle Ages, Artemisia was known ambivalently as Lad's Love and Maiden's Ruin...
...Reported Reston: "That sent ripples of pain racing through my limbs and at least had the effect of diverting my attention from the distress in my stomach." Next, the doctor resorted to another traditional Chinese treatment called moxibustion: he lit two pieces of an herb called ai or ngai (Artemisia vulgaris, or wormwood) and held the smoldering wads near Reston's abdomen. Reston soon felt better, but could not attempt to explain...