Word: dei
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...television networks. Just as they were gearing up for the big invasion of Haiti, the dynamic trio of Carter, Nunn, and Powell had to fly in and make boring news. Everyone knows that bland, bloodless sound bites don't sell. Just who do these eleventh-hour dei ex machina think they...
...were standouts, notably Hagley and Marie-Ange Todorovitch, as Cherubino). Poor Renee Fleming, as the Countess, was stuck with the staging's only coarse moments. Somehow director Stephen Medcalf thought to dramatize the lady's unhappiness by portraying her in a kind of sexual heat. While Susanna is singing "Dei vieni non tardar," Mozart's heavenly, healing, last-act aria, the Countess is writhing around a tree trunk...
...Joan of Arc) was not some great saint who had visions from God but rather an ordinary person who's just right to be an action-adventure hero." --SCREENWRITER LAETA KALOGRIDIS, ON THE SUBJECT OF HER NEW SCRIPT, IN NOMINE DEI, WHICH WAS SOLD LAST WEEK TO PRODUCER JOEL SILVER (LETHAL WEAPON) FOR A REPORTED...
...might happen at National Review now that Bill Buckley has retired. A tweedy editor of the critical monthly New Criterion has some delicious gossip about faculty problems at Duke. A lanky novelist asks if anyone else plans to catch the lecture on Catholic philosopher Jacques Maritain at the Opus Dei center next door...
...well as a formal utterance about appearance and rank was not born with Titian; Leonardo, Botticelli, Durer and Van Eyck were all his elders, and in his youth he worked with Giorgione, the most shadowed and inward looking of Venetian quattrocento painters, on the fresco decorations of the Fondaco dei Tedeschi. Giorgione's ambition to paint people in the act of thinking, to invent signs for internal reflection as well as external show, was carried forward by Titian into works such as the Louvre's Man with a Glove...