You were thinking of a bunch of longhaired, bespangled musicians in heavy eyeliner, weren't you?
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And Weimar is also bespangled with posters of the centre-left Greens and the right-wing, but economically statist, Alternative for Germany (AfD).
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Margaret Thatcher, their leader, campaigned in a hideous sweater bespangled with European flags and railed against "the parochial politics of 'minding our own business'".
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But on Monday night, that someone was Kanye West, the musical was "The Cher Show," and it was the glittery and bespangled opening night.
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The latter part of Gruffydd's reign was considered to be a "Golden Age"; according to the Life of Gruffudd ap Cynan Gwynedd was "bespangled with lime- washed churches like the stars in the firmament".
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The story as recounted in Nonnus' DionysiacaNonnus, Dionysiaca 8. 110 ff (trans. Rouse) (Greek epic 5th century A.D.) were as follows: > [Hera learns Semele is pregnant with a child of Zeus:] Nor did the consort > of Zeus [Hera] abate her heavy anger. She stormed with flying shoe through > the heaven bespangled with tis pattern of shining stars, she coursed through > innumerable cities with travelling foot, seeking if anywhere she could find > Apate (Deceit) the crafty one.
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" The New Yorker called it "graceful, mournful and often exuberant first book combines the best aspects of confessional and lyric poetry." Carol Muske in The Nation compared the "domestic" and "feminine" aspects to "Sylvia Plath and Louise Bogan". Subterranean (2001), was a finalist for the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets. Publisher’s Weekly wrote "This second collection... comes bespangled with impressive encomia from the likes of Harold Bloom, Eavan Boland and Molly Peacock, praising Bialosky's voice, her 'dark chill power' and the volume's 'mythic underworld collage.
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Settlements became more permanent, with buildings of stone replacing timber structures. Stone churches in particular were built across Gwynedd, with so many limewashed that "Gwynedd was bespangled with them as is the firmament with stars". Gruffudd had built stone churches at his royal manors, and Lloyd suggests Gruffudd's example led to the rebuilding of churches with stone in Penmon, Aberdaron, and Towyn in the Norman fashion. Gruffudd promoted the primacy of the Episcopal See of Bangor in Gwynedd, and funded the building of Bangor Cathedral during the episcopate of David the Scot, Bishop of Bangor, between 1120–1139.
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Charisse had an excellent role in Sombrero (1953) as well as the lead female role in The Band Wagon (1953), where she danced with Astaire in the acclaimed "Dancing in the Dark" (it was one of her most memorable dance numbers) and "Girl Hunt Ballet" routines. Vincente Minnelli directed. Critic Pauline Kael said that "when the bespangled Charisse wraps her phenomenal legs around Astaire, she can be forgiven everything, even her three minutes of 'classical' ballet and the fact that she reads her lines as if she learned them phonetically." The film was another classic but lost money for MGM.
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So many limewashed stone churches, the Eglwys Wen or White Churches, were built across Gwynedd that the principality "[became] bespangled with them as is the firmament with stars". Gruffudd had stone churches built at his princely manors, and Lloyd suggests Gruffudd's example led to the rebuilding of churches with stone in Penmon, Aberdaron, and Towyn, all in the Norman fashion. Additionally, Gruffudd funded the construction of Bangor Cathedral, dedicated to Saint Deiniol, under the episcopate of Gruffudd's advisor Bishop David the Scot. Gruffudd acquiesced to many of the Latin reforms brought to Wales in the wake of the Norman invaders, reforms such as a more structured episcopate within Gwynedd.
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Those who are most concerned with philosophy and the heavens are dearest to her. Those who have been instructed by her she raises aloft to heaven, for it is a fact that imagination and the power of thought lift men's souls to heavenly heights.Diodorus, Bibliotheca historica 4. 7. 1 > Urania, o'er her star-bespangled lyre, > With touch of majesty diffused her soul; > A thousand tones, that in the breast inspire, > Exalted feelings, o er the wires'gan roll— > How at the call of Jove the mist unfurled, > And o'er the swelling vault—the glowing sky, > The new-born stars hung out their lamps on high, > And rolled their mighty orbs to music's sweetest sound.
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Settlements in Gwynedd became more permanent, with buildings of stone replacing timber structures. Stone churches in particular were built across Gwynedd, with so many limewashed that "Gwynedd was bespangled with them as is the firmament with stars". Gruffudd had built stone churches at his princely manors, and Lloyd suggests that his example led to the rebuilding of churches in stone in Penmon, Aberdaron, and Towyn in the Norman fashion. By the 13th century, Gwynedd was the cornerstone of the Principality of Wales (that is Pura Wallia), which came to encompass three- quarters of the area of modern Wales: "from Anglesey to Machen, from the outskirts of Chester to the outskirts of Cydweli".Davies, John, A History of Wales, Penguin, 1994, Aberffraw stability and effects on population, town- dwellers, decline in slavery, page 151Lloyd, J.E., A History of Wales; From the Norman Invasion to the Edwardian Conquest, Aberffraw stability pg 219, 220 By 1271, Prince Llywelyn ap Gruffudd could claim a growing population of about 200,000: a little less than three-quarters of the total Welsh population.
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