Word: virginities
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...panels of the Aix Annunciation triptych are brought together - from Aix-en-Provence, Brussels, Amsterdam and Rotterdam - for the first time since 1932. (Two of the cities had but half a panel each.) Attributed to Barthélemy d'Eyck, the magnificent altarpiece, depicting an angel appearing to the Virgin Mary, conceals the devils in its details: a dragon and a bat in the Gothic arches above the angel's head, a monkey dancing on Mary's lectern, a vase on the floor holding foxglove, belladonna and basil - all three sorcerers' plants...
...first course is a yellow fin tuna tartar, made with center-cut tuna that is chopped with roasted shiitake mushrooms, truffle oil, red onion, chives and extra virgin olive oil. The result is far less complicated than the lengthy recipe would suggest: a dish of delicate simplicity, offset by French string beans breaded with a light sheen of tempura and resting on a pungent mustard sauce. The dish was designed to complement the young and brash “Bone Jolly” Gamay from El Dorado County...
...hand-painted, blue and white statue of the Virgin Mary burst into tears on Feb. 9 and has been crying ever since, according to many believers who have witnessed it outside of Medford’s Sacred Heart Church...
...even though Doherty does not believe that the statue is crying, he said that the Virgin Mary does have plenty of reasons...
...miracle!” said one teenager who stopped by briefly. Later, two middle-aged women in black overcoats who refused to be identified, stepped out of their BMW M5 for a few minutes to take photographs and place a heart-shaped chocolate in the Virgin Mary’s hand. “I came over to make a chocolate donation,” one of the women said, “She’s had a long couple of weeks…everybody needs chocolate...