It goes viral, and, without consulting any of the maidens, Prince Charming signs a seven-figure "Balls Full of Maidens" book deal.
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O Maidens in Your Savage Season starts on July 5th.
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"Those maidens are like draft picks," said Pegram, his agent.
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Iron maidens swing open to reveal disciples bent on your death.
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The corps de ballet of swan maidens forms a passionate accompaniment.
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Is this the queen of the swan maidens we saw earlier?
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They are not passive Victorian maidens in need of assertiveness training.
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Renovations will include racks and Iron Maidens with table service (reservations required).
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And why are so many maidens recently flocking to strength-based sports?
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Accordingly, despite the man's efforts the local maidens were not overly impressed.
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Leonardo da Vinci wrote that only "fair maidens" could appease the unicorn's ferocity.
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Whatever the setting, Salgari filled his stories with swordfights, hidden treasure and beautiful maidens.
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The fillies in the tenth were all "maidens": they had never won a race.
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His Flower Maidens do appear at first in black robes covering all but their faces.
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Five knights in plastic armor encountered five sprightly maidens but made little progress in wooing them.
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The corps of swan maidens in Act II has reached a new level of refined beauty.
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Are we, like the men chasing the maidens on Keats's Grecian urn, locked forever in "mad pursuit"?
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"Two young maidens should help me into an old-style wooden chair," he added, pretending to hobble.
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And Viking warriors who reached Valhalla would be rewarded with draughts of the stuff, delivered by beautiful maidens.
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When white-clad maidens came to the American novelist Saul Bellow in 1976, for example, he was irritated.
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Calling the girls his "maidens," he was treated like a "rock star," which included frequent sex with the girls.
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A website called Struggle for Hindu Existence carries endless titillating stories about Muslim youths luring Hindu maidens into wickedness.
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Trainer: Steve Asmussen Jockey: Paco Lopez Odds: 1-1 J.D.: His only win was back in January against maidens.
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The Weinsteinians are more like an imperial ruling class commanding unsuspecting young maidens to service them in their bedchambers.
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The players: the four Bennet sisters, minor gentry maidens who will be left nearly penniless when their dad croaks.
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The most striking aspect of The Maids of Elfen Mere is that all three maidens have the same face.
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You should argue about it — don't the Maidens lose their individuality when they turn into uniformly platinum-blonde brides?
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"I'm excited to see how the maidens in England are dressed, the jewelry and colors they are wearing," she said.
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These come to the surface when the dunes of Penzance are invaded by a squadron of dewy, gaily tripping maidens.
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The frontally focused maidens become the emotional pillars for the two mothers-to-be as their private drama plays out.
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In many of the works, Olsen depicts writhing and aggressive vegetation and supine maidens in a reciprocal human and plant entanglement.
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How alike or unalike does each ballerina make Odette, the enchanted queen of the swan-maidens, and Odile, her alluring counterpart?
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"My maidens aim to explore the submissive woman's battle between states of empowerment and vulnerability within the fetish lifestyle," Harris explains.
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The performers are often Bambi-eyed maidens and clean-cut swains who have not necessarily been recruited for their vocal gifts.
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They also dovetail with the Pre-Raphaelites across the English Channel, who had similar tastes for knights' chalices and longhaired maidens.
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It's a sentiment which Traditional Folk music, with its nostalgic songs of virtuous maidens and rolling hills, is a natural fit for.
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It kept devastating the town and eating all the young maidens (it definitely wasn't safe to be an unmarried virgin back then).
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To stand in front Matisse's circle of dancing maidens or Rembrandt's portrait of his mother is to recognise that they are masterpieces.
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What felt like problems are no longer serious — though I still wish the maidens were not transformed into uniformly blond Aryan types.
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The two maidens stare blankly, while Mary and Elizabeth seem to be sharing the foreknowledge of the violent deaths awaiting their sons.
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We're not sure if her figures are the maidens of Romantic myth or the daughters of communism, laboring to realize an agrarian ideal.
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"People can sometimes mistake the gothic for maidens called Elsie running around in a nightgown and seeing a ghost," Ms Perry has said.
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Germany's 19th-century nationalists romanticised the tribes who fought the Roman legions—which is why Wagner throngs with spear maidens and knuckleheaded heroes.
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Also known for her Beautiful Corpse series, Harris's Meat Maidens are an assemblage of thrifted porcelain figurines, found metals, and preserved animal meat.
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Her maidens carry confidence and strength in their unusual form and tempt the viewer to explore a world of fetishism and female submission.
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She then explains — in traditional mime gestures (Ballet Theater's production preserves most of these) — that she is the queen of the swan maidens.
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But to many locals, the painter's clichéd representations of lush, exotic islands full of dusky maidens with no voice or identity are tiresome.
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While in France, Tessin also bought what was then the hottest of contemporary art: Rococo paintings of pale-necked maidens and adulterous gods.
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They portray them as mythological princesses and maidens rather than contemporary Americans facing overlapping forms of oppression — environmental racism, police violence, and sexual exploitation.
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Last month, the social juggernaut blocked South African TV and Radio Producer Msizi Nkosi after he shared images of Swazi Maidens wearing traditional attire.
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Iron Maidens was started to celebrate women who lift at any level, whether they do it for their health or to test their limits.
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Cover: Protesters dressed as "Hand Maidens" line the hallway near the Judge Brett Kavanaugh nomination hearing to become the next Associate Supreme Court Justice.
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Some devotees of Wagner's score feel that the maidens' waltzing music of seduction is, by intention, sickly sweet, an interpretation that comes through here.
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Linda Lempert, who made Iron Maidens her first weightlifting competition at age 70, loves how the sport is changing perspectives on what women can do.
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Dainty porcelain dolls, the kind you'd find in antique stores or your grandmother's china cabinet, meet BDSM in Mia-Jane Harris's Meat Maidens sculpture series.
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The definition is correct but I always imagine fairies, art nouveau maidens and gossamer damselflies as clues for this, so it didn't come to mind.
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Some of these archetypes are incredibly familiar from stories told across all media, where women are often portrayed as mothers, maidens, crones, and the like.
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He wrote just one female character, Kundry, and a singing chorus of sirens, the Flower Maidens, who appear only in Act II. Kundry, traumatically divided between carnal and spiritual forces, and the Flower Maidens are femmes fatales who try to lure Parsifal (and by implication other knights) from the path of virtue; Wagner's knights, though they're stirring and needy in other ways, are conceived as ludicrously chaste.
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The stars at the pinnacle of American society are celebrated back in India alongside rather un-American figures such as spin-bowling masters and Bollywood maidens.
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Many Wagner devotees actually enjoy a good "Ring" satire, perhaps because we admit that, however compelling, its giants, river maidens and dwarfs are a little laughable.
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That recitation included poses of languorous temple maidens, so that Mr. Subramaniam was subverting gender binaries, an idea with ancient Indian roots that also counts as trendy.
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CrossFit South Brooklyn held its fifth annual Iron Maidens Raw Open this past Saturday, which, as the hardcore name suggests, is a powerlifting competition just for women.
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Some reference iconic works like Picasso's "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon," which Hernández uses as the inspiration for "Maidens of the Barrio" (2013), a group portrait of Latinx feminism.
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In the early 1700s, the Baroque gave way to the more sentimental Rococo style, typified by soft pinks and blues, light curves and amorous gods and maidens.
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In fact, it can be read as a deliberate rebuke to the toga-draped maidens pouring water from urns on the matte surface of a jasperware teapot.
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The procession hasn't started yet, but already there's a busy canvas of people milling about in costume: men and women dressed as legionnaires, gladiators, ribboned maidens, and noblemen.
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There are times when the novel adopts the tone of a boy's adventure story with obvious villains, endangered maidens and heroes, but one particular villain is too obvious.
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" The song, with male voices singing in English, featured lyrics such as: "For the sake of Allah we will march to gates of the paradise where our maidens await.
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On Wednesday evening, the end of the first Odette scene was glorious: The corps of swan-maidens, conducted by Ormsby Wilkins, seemed to catch fire from Odette's new hope.
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The company usually favors more earnest stories about gallant heroes and pure-hearted maidens, its upended casting put to the service of the most conventional kind of sex roles.
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It's just that the one person, or 3 million people, who step up to take responsibility for the earth can't turn into mythic maidens and stop the unceasing rain.
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Campy hoplites and temple maidens appear in dramatic photographs from 1970 by Pierre Zucca, whose collaborations with the great artist and writer Pierre Klossowski mashed up sex and economics.
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All is well until young maidens in nearby towns begin mysteriously dying from an unknown illness, and Laura has visions of a large, cat-like creature attacking her at night.
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The puppet is operated by more than a dozen "miners" and "bal-maidens" tasked with accompanying the steam-powered giant to 10 different historically significant locations throughout the world heritage site.
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Older editions could feel impossible to master and lent themselves to natural boy's clubs with their depictions of "busty maidens" and a reliance on damsels in distress and man-hero narratives.
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Older editions could feel impossible to master and lent themselves to natural boy's clubs with their depictions of "busty maidens" and a reliance on damsels in distress and man-hero narratives.
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These sleek maidens reminded me of the dehumanized workers in Paul McCarthy's Chocolate Factory exhibition at Monnaie de Paris (where Cattelan will have an exhibition, Cattelan without Cattelan, in the fall).
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Saving maidens seemed to be the main theme for Nintendo in the '80s — the company released "The Legend of Zelda" for NES just a year after Mario made his solo debut.
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When I started it ten years ago I had visions of the Bulmer's advert with, like, long grass, wild flowers and maidens with long blonde hair running through in floaty dresses.
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It was rumored that in a scene in Act II, the Flower Maidens under the spell of the demonic sorcerer Klingsor are presented as temptresses in Islamic dress covering skimpy undergarments.
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Many of Jérôme Kaplan's designs are closely modeled on those of 1895, especially the swan-maidens, wearing small circular white caps on their hair from which low ponytails descend past their necks.
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Except she is far from the virginal maidens of Susini's models, and she has a voice, until it is silenced by her execution for the murder of her husband and two children.
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Not since Herman Melville's publishers argued for less whale and more maidens in "Moby-Dick" ("young, perhaps voluptuous," they dared to dream) has a literary judgment been so impressively off the mark.
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The Golden Stairs (1880), which depicts 18 near identically dressed maidens descending a curved golden staircase, is one of his weirdest and most celebrated paintings, but it's the feet that stand out.
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"That they not make a sort of soft porn film called 'Maidens in Leather' or something, which has always been a temptation to certain kinds of filmmakers," the Canadian author told Reuters.
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Their work expends far more energy on the melodrama of decline and decadence, on visions of Jews giving syphilis to Aryan maidens and on the Roman ruins, than on a positive future.
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Trematon in their hands has become a Victorian fantasy of King Arthur's court, where knights would pursue maidens under flowery bowers and lush meadows — an atmosphere familiar from 19th-century Pre-Raphaelite paintings.
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With ritual precision, the vestals awaken their miserable charges each dawn and roll them about on their beds of pain while performing ablutions, in the formal movements of which the maidens are highly trained.
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Zac Efron and the Rock may get all the attention as they show off their tire flipping skills, but on Saturday, 60 badass women competed in the fifth annual Iron Maidens Raw Open in Brooklyn.
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Possibly, it's they who return as the seductive Flower Maidens of Act II. Then, in Act III, they're part of the Grail community, no longer an exclusive men-only club but a wider, saner group.
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The plot concerns Alviano Salvago, a disfigured outcast who constructs an island paradise, the pleasures of which go awry when other aristocrats use it as a base for abducting and assaulting the maidens of Genoa.
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The famous Act 2 lakeside dances for the swan-maidens can either express their relief at returning to human form for the night or — something very different — their stress at their slave-like lack of freedom.
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While I'm sure not all of these results represent sex workers, a few clicks in, and I'm on the profile of Nottingham-based escort agency Midlands Maidens, which proudly cites "Microsoft Office" as one of its skills.
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After disappearing behind white curtains into a dimly-lit room, kneeling by the side of piled straw mats draped in white, the emperor, accompanied only by two shrine maidens, arranged offerings for the goddess on 32 oakleaf plates.
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Trippy, color-soaked forest scenes — maidens, wolves, giant mushrooms — cover the wall over the reception desk, while the lounge is inhabited by a sculptural wild boar (propping up an end table) and a lamp shaped like a rabbit.
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After disappearing behind white curtains into a dimly-lit room, kneeling by the side of piled straw mats draped in white, the emperor, accompanied only by two shrine maidens, arranged offerings for the goddess on 32 oakleaf plates.
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It's been made abundantly clear that Westworld's hosts are "fully functional," and since supplying maidens of the Old West with bottles of Astroglide would feel a bit anachronistic, that means they've got to be equipped with self-lubricating vaginas.
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Instead of a demure Victorian romance, though, "Le Corsaire," based on a Lord Byron poem, is a flashy, virtuosic fantasy about pirates, slaves and abducted maidens, complete with dated gender and cultural stereotypes that range from questionable to objectionable.
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ZURICH — The lake with swan-maidens on its bank at night, the swan hunt that leads Prince Siegfried to discover doomed love, the heroine Odette and her evil replica, Odile: "Swan Lake" often feels like the world's most familiar ballet.
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By contrast, the slouchy suiting at Paul Smith, whether covered in metallic florals or select paisleys, and the pirate maidens, all military braid capes and lacy tiers, at Temperley London, were aesthetically available — simply another translation of what had come before.
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"Untitled" (2018) has a deep purple ground and flowers dominate the scene as they do in "New Mexico" (2018), where gobs of frosting-like paint suggest the petals and blood-orange colorings of a kingcup cactus, the maidens all but obscured.
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But to the women in the Iron Maidens Raw Open in Brooklyn, it's not just a place to lift a heavy thing and put it down, it's an opportunity to metaphorically lift up the women around them and their community.
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In light of these events, it's hard not to think of the two maidens in the same way that the Florentines looked at Michelangelo's "David"(1501-04), made a quarter-century earlier: an embodiment of the city's stoicism against overwhelming odds.
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I could relate more to this landscape than to those of the fables of my childhood, in which valiant knights pursuing fair maidens were usually fresh off the horse from bloody quests that had a little something to do with vanquishing Islam.
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" More seriously, a Tumblr user called it "girl shit that cuts," and elaborated with examples: "vicious maidens vicious in their maidenhood, vicious mothers vicious in their motherhood, vicious seductresses vicious in their seduction, women who make the tenets of their aggressive conspicuous femininity cruel.
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The movie launches promisingly enough, its Pepto-Bismol font curling across the credits in the spirit of Sofia Coppola's The Beguiled (a film to which LaBruce's bears striking plot similarities, if you swap the white-gowned maidens for surly lesbians in matching knee-high socks).
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The first reference to democratic assembly voting procedure occurs in Aeschylus' early tragedy "The Suppliant Maidens," from 470 B.C.E. But ancient tragedy is not just a celebration or vindication of democracy or Athenian glory (although Athens does come off quite well in some of the plays).
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In a dimly-lit room he kneels by piled straw mats draped in white, said to be a resting place for the goddess, as two shrine maidens bring in offerings of food, from rice to abalone, for Naruhito to use in filling 32 plates made from oak leaves.
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The artist combined his interest in the nude with imaginary scenes from his musical heroes' operas as early as the mid-1870s, as witnessed by his pastel here of "The Rhine Maidens," which, with its hazy outlines of nude female figures swimming through space, anticipates fin-de-siècle Symbolism.
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Instead of plot, this movie has characters or, more accurately, archetypes: a hero (Khan, if you were wondering); a stream of villains, culminating in the ultimate rascal (an amusing Sudeep, who broods as he dangles maidens off precipices); a wife (Sonakshi Sinha); and on and on like that.
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Replacing the young hotshot Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla, who would have made her Philharmonic debut with these concerts but remains on maternity leave, Paavo Jarvi conducts a program of Sibelius's "Lemminkainen and the Maidens of the Island," the second suite from Ravel's "Daphnis et Chloé" and Dvorak's Cello Concerto.
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MULLANY Tapestry isn't often thought of as a transgressive art form, but the naughtiest and most hilarious work at TEFAF this year is a woven wall hanging, completed in Bruges around 1600 and offered by this London gallery, that depicts shepherds and maidens getting very frisky in a verdant garden.
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In a theatrical tour de force, the female demons who, at the command of Klingsor (the menacing bass-baritone Evgeny Nikitin), become the flower maidens who try to seduce Parsifal in Act II, slosh around in a shallow pool of blood that drips from the walls and covers the stage.
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Shamefully Islamophobic in its portrayal of Flower Maidens who strip their niqabs to reveal belly-dancing outfits — not to mention in how Parsifal, a Western soldier, wanders into the third act with combat gear over the top of his own head scarf — it is hostile to all forms of belief.
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Meanwhile, his easily parodied stylistic hallmarks — swirling cameras, sunlit landscapes, fields of tall grasses waving in the wind, barefoot maidens tiptoeing in pools of water, beautiful actors, and, above all, whispery philosophical voiceovers — are pulling in diminishing returns, at times feeling obvious or even rote, rather than poetic and calculated.
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This does not mean that Carter's Little Red Riding Hood chews gum or rides a motorcycle but that the strange things in those tales—the werewolves and snow maidens, the cobwebbed caves and liquefying mirrors—are made to live again by means of a prose informed by psychoanalysis and cinema and Symbolist poetry.
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Despite that ambition, it was a pretty lifeless affair, beyond the kick of seeing Angelina Jolie vamp it up in the title role, and the appealing notion (which also found a home in "Frozen") that "true love" -- the kind that can break a spell -- isn't merely the province of winsome maidens and handsome princes.
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Amid the parade of yakitori at Le Rigmarole, Compagnon and Yang present pasta that shows a clear debt to Italy while resembling no codified recipe; even their noodle shapes and names — cushioni, for ravioli that look like doll pillows; faniciulle, from the Italian word for maidens, elaborately folded like demure hoods — are the chefs' inventions.
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Should you find yourself faced with a row of amaro bottles lined up at a bar, it's easy to zone out a little just looking at the labels — another of the category's charms is that the bottles are often lovely to behold, with rich colors and elaborate lettering and, sometimes, pastoral scenes and maidens and monks and birds.
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One obvious problem is the long forest interlude Mr. McKenzie has supplied for the flock of white-clad swan maidens before the main part of Act IV. They're anxiously awaiting their queen, Odette; they know that she has journeyed to the palace where Prince Siegfried, who last night fell in love with her, is celebrating his birthday.
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On its own, it is hard to recommend unless you are looking to watch a specific show that only it has; there are a couple like O Maidens in Your Savage Season (one of our best anime of 2019), Bloom Into You (one of our best anime of 2018), or the classic '90s anime Legend of the Galactic Heroes.
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READ MORE: No, Andean Corn Beer Isn't Made with Spit Anymore The novelty in the Japanese method—there is always a novelty in the Japanese method— is that the Japanese ruling class took some liberties in dictating that the saliva must be that of hot young maidens, giving mouth-chewed sake it's more palatable alias, bijinshu ("beautiful woman sake").
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" Seeing his original juxtaposition of maidens and horror — such as in "Eve, The Serpent and Death" where Death resembles a decomposing human figure, a curvaceous Eve smiles coyly in the distance, and the central sensual figure in "The Weather Witches" sits on a flayed donkey's skin, images in the movies, from "Nosferatu" to "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari.
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Lempert, who has a degree in agroecology from the University of Wisconsin—and in her non-Co-op life runs an amateur women's power-lifting competition called Iron Maidens Open—is well aware that some Co-op members don't think that meat should be available at the store or anywhere else; her job requires a diplomatic balance of assertiveness and tact.
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Other works in Indian Country showcase David Bradley's interest in representing Native American bodies and cultures in the context of modern art history, whether it's the young Hopi woman with traditional squash blossom hairstyle given the Warhol treatment in "Hopi Maidens" or the homage to Magritte in "Chaco Canyon Passage," where a kachina-faced moon appears over a man in a bowler hat in Ancestral Pueblo lands.
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Such remarks take considerable book space away from the excellent chapter by Russian avant-garde specialist John E. Bowlt devoted to Bakst and the Ballets-Russes-adjacent, antiquity-obsessed creative circle, which comprised the likes of Isadora Duncan, known for her "antique evocations" in dance, and Elise Jouhandeau, a dancer who went by the stage name "Caryathis" — a reference to maidens in mythology who performed a sacrificial dance for Artemis Caryathis.
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In "Mothers, Daughters" (20063), which begins in Los Angeles but takes place mostly in Northern California, and "Rhine Maidens" (1981), whose mother and daughter narrators live in different social strata and have little in common besides genes and unfulfilling marriages, Ms. See concentrated on women whose lives are being lived out disappointingly, the pain of riven generational ties and the emotional wanness of a society in the latter days of the sexual revolution.
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