Word: xiv
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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They apply criteria established in the 1700s by Pope Benedict XIV: among them, that the disease was serious; that there was objective proof of its existence; that other treatments failed; and that the cure was rapid and lasting. Any one can be a stumbling block. Pain, explains Ensoli, means little: "Someone might say he feels bad, but how do you measure that?" Leukemia remissions are not considered until they have lasted a decade. A cure attributable to human effort, however prayed for, is insufficient. "Sometimes we have cases that you could call exceptional, but that's not enough." says Ensoli...
...money and effort spent to capture that brutal and ridiculous gesture. It's a feeling which the viewer will experience several times during the course of "Queen Margot," as if Chereau hoped to have one awestruck merely on the merits of enormous expense. It's an attitude which Louis XIV, the biggest conspicuous consumer of them all, would have understood, as a directorial technique however, it fails to deliver. After the wedding scene, "Queen Margot" disintegrates into the byzantine intrigues leading up to the film's centerpiece, the massacre. There is an amusing bit where Margot, who refuses to consummate...
...immense space available -- the ceilings are 115 ft. high -- French architect Michel Macary turned two of the courtyards into limestone terraces that show off, among other things, the heroic statues of Pierre Puget and a pair of rearing horses carved in Carrara marble by Guillaume Coustou for Louis XIV. The third courtyard, designed by American architect Stephen Rustow, evokes the palace of the Assyrian King Sargon II (8th century B.C.) at Khorsabad and features two 13-ft.-high winged bulls with human heads...
...Blue, Red and Green rooms were dark and forbidding, what with the stuffed ghosts and goblins guarding the French doors on Louis XIV chairs. As one servant who started with L.B.J. put it, "I've never seen anything like...
Performed in three acts, The Sleeping Beauty opens with a court scene reminiscent of the history of ballet itself. In the palace of King Florestan XIV, fairy upon fairy dance blessings on the new born Princes Aurora. With a stage full of court guests, each fairy dancer bows to the audience as if the audience was a part of the court itself. The history of ballet centers around court culture but the bows in this opening act feel somewhat jarring to the audience--its self-awareness adds a layer of artificiality to the ballet, for the audience witnesses the performance...