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Originally, beehive paintings were crude designs to ward off evil spirits; favorite subjects were the Madonna, the saints, and especially Job, the patron saint of beekeepers. As the generations progressed, painted hives became a status symbol; prosperous owners hired itinerant painters to decorate each hive with as many as 60 panels. Styles be came baroque, subjects sly and secular, with folk tales and local gossip pre dominant. One panel, dated 1890, may have been done by an artist who knew his subject all too well. It shows a red-shirted farmer, holding a beehive, as he falls from a ladder...
...change Kiesinger's mind on the critical issues, he did move the German Chancellor to exclaim: "Whether you agree with him or not, what a man!" Next week Canada will be exposed to the treatment. On a five-day visit, the general will float grandly up the Saint Lawrence River on the French cruiser Colbert, motor from Quebec to Montreal, greeting thousands of French Canadians along the way, then look over Expo 67. Only afterward, despite the Canadian governments entreaties, will he condescend to touch down at the English-speaking capital of Ottawa...
...Bottom and Oberon is quite possible--except for one critical scene well along in the play (IV, i), where Bottom, with his noggin transformed into an ass' head, and Oberon must both appear and speak on stage. We are told that Anthony of Padua, Philip Neri and other saints of eld were capable of bilocation. Are they now to be joined by Saint Cyril? The suspense is hardly bearable; and the answer turns out to be: yes, apparently. Bottom appears; yes, it's Ritchard's voice all right. Titaniz puts him to sleep. Oberon enters and does his stuff; Ritchard...
...that the job of directed evolved in the first place--and, analogously, that the orchestral conductor superseded the head-bobbing harpsichordist or violin list. Is the indulging of theatrical egotism and arrogance worth a return to the old-time lack of focus, balance, and precision? Both Sir Laurence and Saint Cyril should attend to wending their ways by mending their maze...
Down the street from the Rococo, in a dimly lit basement nightclub, a shaggy combo, the Golden Boys, hammered out a lilting press release for Saint Vitus Cathedral, "Pride of all Gothic." The locale may be different, but anyone west of the Carpathians would recognize the tune as Winchester Cathedral...