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...would chop vegetables, wash dishes and wait on tables at a restaurant that served dishes from her native Fujian province. Occasionally she could be seen tottering down the street struggling with bales of clothes, dragging them into her general-merchandise store. But to many she was a veritable goddess, dispensing both mercy and fortune. Her devotees called her Dajie Ping--Big Sister Ping...
...Chinese, families are more important," he explained. And money is no object if reunion is the result. "If someone died on the journey," says Wong, "she was famous for making a payment to the family and promising free passage for the next son. In China she was like a goddess. A snakehead with a heart...
...fabled city could yield even more evidence of early Egyptian culture than divers have retrieved from Menouthis. There they have hauled from the sea a basalt head of a pharaoh, a bust of the curly-haired and bearded god Serapis and a life-size, headless statue of the goddess Isis, as well as gold coins and jewelry...
...dedicated to "all Rastafari people." In one song, What Doesn't Belong to Me, O'Connor sings from the perspective of God, rejecting the self-segregation in the world: "I'm Irish, I'm English, I'm Muslim, I'm Jewish/I'm a girl, I'm a boy/and the goddess meant for me only joy." On another track, The Lamb's Book of Life, O'Connor becomes Ireland itself, running from history and searching for redemption in America: "I know that I have done many things/To give you reason not to listen to me/...Words can't express how sorry...
Some paintings in the show are unutterable camp, but that was what the upper-middle classes liked in the Belle Epoque, and artists saw no reason to deprive them of it. Particularly strong was the appetite for historical works in which stern Antiquity framed the goddess Pornography. By far the hottest example of the genre here is a fabulous piece of kitsch by Paul Jamin, Brennus and his Loot, 1893, showing a barbarian Gallic chieftain gloating over his spoils from the sack of Rome. They include five naked, rosy-nippled girls, writhing on the floor in postures of submission...