Word: regaling
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...circulation. Algernon Swinburne had a great taste for erotica ("Shall I tell our visitor about the man of Peru?"). Whistler's saucy Finette, who introduced the cancan to England, was clearly not his mother. The Queen herself comes out of Pearl's researches unscathed (save for a regal tendency, noted by Gladstone, to spike her claret with whisky). But Edward VII, her son and heir, was such a celebrated patron of the tarts that La Goulue (Lautrec's model) would call out at the Jardin de Paris: "Allo, Wales! Est-ce-que tu vas payer man champagne...
...vigné, whom generations of critics have crowned "the queen of letter writers." In this selection of 272 out of many hundreds of De Sévigné letters, the diadem seems to have its fair share of paste jewels, but it is worn with a regal flourish and idiosyncratic authority...
...through the passionate, attenuated figures of El Greco and Grünewald to such diverse moderns as Gauguin and Matisse, the elemental yet intimate scene of mother and newborn son has filled men with awe and rejoicing. To celebrate this event, artists have enriched the story with regal Byzantine mosaics, the glories of Chartres' medieval stained glass, with enamels, jewels, oils and frescoes. To the Nativity the greatest artists in Western history have, like the Scriptured Magi, traveled afar to bring their most precious Twelfth Night gifts...
...Marco. Fra Angelico concentrated on the simple devotional images required by his fellow monks for their meditations and prayers. The results, seen in the six cells definitely painted by Fra Angelico, represent Fra Angelico at his strongest and purest. To portray The Mocking of Christ, he painted a regal, blindfolded Christ figure crowned with thorns; the throng of jeering soldiery appear only as a group of disembodied hands and a loutish head, cap raised in sarcasm, spitting upon Christ. By abstracting all but the essential central image, Fra Angelico makes the eye travel through a curve of space to return...
...royal palace, his fingertips pressed together in the customary seraphic greeting, Sihanouk played benign host, introducing the visitors to his royal parents and apologizing for not feeding them all: "You are so many, I would be broke." From his gilded, red velvet throne, King Suramarit received his gifts with regal gratitude: "Oh, the beautiful fruit." Concurred his son: "It's really too much, too much...