Word: sacra
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...long scene of sexual tension, she kisses Hyun and nearly seduces him; in another, he acknowledges both her attractiveness and his rapacious new nature and they consummate their relationship, one whose carnal excess will define the rest of the film. Their love is both sacred and insane: sacra-mental. And the movie goes mad with them. This is a mad love story that gets down to the essentials: ecstasy, pain and all the bodily fluids, especially blood. It's liberating to see a film that melds with the obsessions of its characters, that strips the moorings from genre expectations...
...Virgin and Child with Saints, a panel painting from the Bellini workshop that was done in the years around 1505 when Titian worked there, is typical. Six gently realized figures are aligned simply in a row toward the viewer, barely acknowledging one another. The genre is called a sacra conversazione - sacred conversation - but nobody in this picture seems to be on speaking terms. Less than a decade later, in Virgin and Child with Saint Catherine, Saint Dominic, and a Donor, Titian, by then in charge of his own studio, brought the Virgin into a persuasively rendered meadow that was also...
There's no such thing as the Mob, huh? Try telling that to small-business organization Confesercenti, which released a report alleging that the Mafia is Italy's "largest firm." "Mafia Inc," composed of Sicily's Cosa Nostra, Naples' Camorra, Calabria's 'Ndrangheta and Puglia's Sacra Corona Unita, brings in more revenue than the country's largest legal business--its government-owned energy company...
...largest and most urban setting yet for a Winter Games, will sound its own vibrant notes as it shows off its unsung charms to an audience of 2 billion around the world. The gods of the Olympics might begin to get their bearings up at the Sacra di San Michele. Perched on a jagged rock formation nearly a kilometer above the valley that connects the city to the Alps just 80 km away, this 10th century Benedictine abbey offers a sweeping panorama of the winterland known as the Milky Way, where some 2,500 athletes will vie for gold. Look...
...bumps, turns and jumps. Purists might tut-tut, but the close-cutting action should attract a fresh breed of fans who prefer wild moves and wipeouts to precision execution. However you like your Games, it all starts to crystallize into a vivid storyline as the wind whips around the Sacra di San Michele, where our guide, Cerutti, is pointing up toward the floor of the chapel. The entire church structure, he explains, was built into a crater of the rock by master builders in medieval times. "They wanted to defy the laws of gravity," he says. In these parts...