Word: maidening
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...it’s a free pass into all sorts of nonsense that doesn’t add up.”Blithely risking blasphemy, she describes the solemn scene where her character sacrifices anthropomorphic messiah Aslan as “a full-on rock concert of the Iron Maiden variety.”And Swinton is even less reverent when she talks about her reasons for taking the role. Mostly, she says, she was hoping to help secure funding for other projects she’s planning, like a film based on the life of icy, heroin-addled German...
...appearance at a Victorian country race meet just three years ago. Rob Childs was there that day, but he remembers only her odd name - concocted from the first two letters of the Christian names of five of owner Tony Santic's female staffers. "When you see them running their maiden at Benalla and coming fourth, you don't put them down as one to watch," says Childs. But Boss easily recalls the first time he rode Makybe, at a track-work session one morning in 2003. The sense that here was something special was almost instantaneous. "It was like getting...
COUPLE: Robert (Rehabbed Romeo) Downey Jr. and Susan (Ultimatum Maiden) Levin...
...genius, a thing of beauty. Her equipoise will be tested as she inhabits a nation wracked by war in Ariel Dorfman's The Other Side (opening Dec. 6 at New York's Manhattan Theatre Club). It's one of three plays by the Chilean author (Death and the Maiden) to premiere this season. Purgatorio opens in Seattle in October, Picasso's Closet in Washington in June...
Benedict XVI's maiden papal voyage began today with cheering pilgrims and a retinue of reporters and bishops and bodyguards following his every step. Looming over the German pontiff's emotional homecoming, though, is Pope John Paul II and his imposing legacy of global outreach. John Paul not only racked up the miles-104 foreign trips during his 26-year papacy-he also had a natural gift for leaving both spiritual and political footprints almost anywhere he touched down (and kissed the ground): subtly undermining the Communist regime with emotional sermons in his native Poland; challenging breakaway priests of Latin...