Word: virgination
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...museum's vast central courtyard, the work brought accusations of aesthetic heresy. This time Pei has offended some observers by combining the museum with an underground shopping gallery that includes 13 fast-food counters and 60 boutiques, ranging from Lalique crystal to Esprit sportswear and a Virgin Records Megastore. The new commercial space is elegant and features at its center an inverted Pei pyramid, which echoes the one outside and bathes the beige limestone halls in a rich, silky light. To his critics, Pei responds in the best tradition of the king-picked artist: "The mixing of art, culture...
...VIRGIN BIRTH. That is a very tender and fantastic thing. Because I believe the Bible, I believe it's important. It is not necessary for one's salvation, but as we follow Christ it's one of the cardinal points we must accept...
...cloning became common, then sex -- along with male and female genders -- would be unnecessary. That's the conceit of books such as Charles Eric Maine's World Without Men (1958) and Poul Anderson's Virgin Planet (1959). Conversely, cloning might be a device for preserving love. The 1991 British TV miniseries The Cloning of Joanna May, based on a Fay Weldon novel, is about a man who dumps his unfaithful wife -- but only after cloning her so he can replace her with her twin a few years down the line...
...arise from this stillness. Before a hunt, Stevens holds a drinking cup for a horseman; the aristocrat takes no notice of his offer, and the butler takes no notice of the slight. His stillness may mask sexual fear: when Miss Kenton amiably approaches him, he freezes like a bruised virgin. The rest of the film Hopkins carries with a small gnomic smile that means a dozen things in a dozen scenes: gratitude, impatience, self-control. "I can say it's simple now," the actor acknowledges, "but it's taken years to distill my work to a more economic form...
...later, she was sitting exactly where she had been before. And where she had been before, and was now, was not the dark, frightening room of seances and sinister doings I had imagined, but an airy, pale blue front porch. The sun was streaming in, and icons of the Virgin Mary and praying hands decorated the otherwise sparse walls...