Word: dieu
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...vocal line should dominate," and it does, against an orchestra as luminous as any Ravel ever created. Among the opera's more effective touches: a procession of shepherds and shepherdesses to a sinuous dance theme played by reed pipes and tambourines; the dizzying dance of the digits (Mon Dieu! c'est I'arithmetique!) to raucous and leering brasses...
...scene; but police were still looking for the truck itself. The museum's semiofficial watchman had spent the night with a sick relative. Local police were snugly in bed until the next morning, when Charwoman Incarnation Olivares arrived, took one look at the bare walls, shrieked: "Mon Dieu, they have pulled off the museum...
...where power was frequently the only truth, superficial appearance was reality. Christianity restored the art of transcendent hidden meanings. With impressive erudition, Malraux traces the sacerdotal role of cathedral, mosaic and icon and the evolution of Christian art from the austere, stylized Byzantine Pantocrators to the benign, handsome "Beau Dieu" in the central portal of Amiens Cathedral. Despite the growing intrusion of realistic detail, Giotto, as late as the 14th century, "did not copy the sky men see, but transmuted it into a sky charged with Christ's presence." But a century later Botticelli plunged into profane art with...
...respected. Plato made no distinction between mother and midwife, used the same word (maia) for both. An old Norwegian proverb advised: "The greatest joy is to become a mother; the second greatest is to be a midwife." But since 1648, when male doctors-at Paris' Hôtel-Dieu-were first permitted to attend a mother during a normal delivery, the role of the midwife throughout much of the world has been reduced to that of a mere birth attendant, patronized mostly by the poor and ignorant...
...Revive in your own house the lost art of romance and take a bath with your husband . . . Step daintily into the bubble-filled tub. Mon Dieu, this is no time to bend over . . . Don't offer to his horrified eyes the ungainly sight of a bare bottom that will only remind him of a blimp struggling through a storm...