Word: maja
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...greatest unresolved situation for Wheaton is in net, where two freshmen will likely share time. He has a talented Californian in Katie Shields, who played in the national club finals each of the past two seasons. There’s also Maja Augustduttir, who’s the backup goaltender on Iceland’s national team...
Wheaton even split the goalkeeping duties between his two freshman keepers, Katie Shields and Maja Augustdottir. Senior Cheryl Gunther, the Crimson’s keeper for all but a handful of games over the past three years, quit the team during the offseason citing several grievances against Wheaton and the current captains...
Goya and images of women? We may suppose we know something about that, having seen The Naked Maja, 1797-1800, one of the most famous woman images in art next to the Mona Lisa: the second most famous nude in Spain after Velazquez's Rokeby Venus, and the first with pubic hair. She was not, by the way, the Duchess of Alba, with whom--contrary to legend--Goya almost certainly had no sexual affair. She, like her companion piece The Clothed Maja, 1800-05, was most probably a Malagan cutie named Pepita Tudo, the mistress of Prime Minister Manuel Godoy...