Word: madonna
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Undercover police posing as art buyers recovered the 16th century painting by the Italian Renaissance master Raphael known both as The Madonna with Child and Lamb and The Madonna of the Hay. The canvas, never publicly exhibited, disappeared in the early 1880s. After agreeing to pay $24 million for it, the police reportedly detained five businessmen and art dealers. But just as the art world got one masterpiece back, it lost another. Edvard Munch's painting The Scream was stolen from the National Art Museum in Oslo. It had been on display as part of a Munch exhibition in conjunction...
...particularly moving and brutal scene, Marcello goes with Emma to report on a sighting of the Madonna by two children. People traveled to the site to express their faith; one woman holds an ailing child and prays for him to be healed. While Emma prays to the Madonna for a rebirth of their love, Marcello stands at the site merely as a reporter, an observer. As night falls, rain comes down and mayhem ensues. People begin to riot, tearing branch by branch the tree where the Madonna was seen, and the little boy dies. The morning reveals the world...
...black, single mother with a shaved head and a nearly unpronounceable name (actually, it's Me-shell Nuh-day-gay-O-chel-lo). Not the usual stuff of rock stardom. Female rockers have a better shot, convention holds, if they are boy toys with cute, catchy names like . . . Madonna. NdegeOcello spent two years trying to interest record companies in her iconoclastic music, a shotgun marriage of funk, jazz, hip-hop and angry poetry that she calls "brokenhearted revolutionary love songs." Finally, in despair and ready to enroll in barber school, she got a phone call, and a record deal...
...Madonna? Yale University? It's possible. Weiss speculated that alumni who want a continuing connection to their alma mater are attracted to the bonds for posterity's sake...
...just in case Madonna is the power behind the debt, the average undergraduate has to wonder: how much power does the investor really have over the University...