Word: saintes
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...Florence, the Medicis left enough chapels, monuments and cathedrals to occupy and student of architecture for many weeks. Every day you can drive past Michelangelo's David on your way into the central square. The Basilica of Saint Lorenzo, so unreal in its beauty, stands nearby like a giant gingerbread house...
Tourists flock to the Italian galleries, but they don't seem to get crowded. The religious subjects inspire silence. There is little alternative to the countless Madonnas, Annunciations, and Saint Sebastians; those with a low tolerance for Renaissance art may lose patience quickly in Florence...
...Florence, the Medicis left enough chapels, monuments and cathedrals to occupy and student of architecture for many weeks. Every day you can drive past Michelangelo's David on your way into the central square. The Basilica of Saint Lorenzo, so unreal in its beauty, stands nearby like a giant gingerbread house...
...sounds more and more like a Harvard House.) Enter a pint-sized pixie of bountiful energy and non-stop chatter. She is never given a name, though she becomes the play's main character: her anonymity seems intended to make her a sort of Everywoman. The character blends saint and sinner both with startling speed, making for a difficult role. Jennifer Raiser does not pull it off. In her earnest enthusiasm, she tramples many of her own lines as well as those of other cast-members. Her incessant whine grows tiresome as we see her change from an apparently naive...
...John P. Harrigan, godfather of Boston's Irish Mafia, whose laundered money is being used for suspicious purchases abroad. Through the delectable Alyss Summers, an art historian, Usher learns that Harrigan has stolen a Donatello statue of St. John the Baptist, as well as a relic of the saint, from a church in Siena. Between lectures Usher gets involved in a gang war, a stratagem to rescue the Donatello, attempts on his life and gory efforts to derail Harrigan's shenanigans. He is assisted by an American pop economist, a rumbustious Boston newspaper editor, a skirt-chasing Turkish...