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...knowledge of the play was on full display. Multiple times, she was asked about language that gave actors difficulty. But after answering their questions about things like poteen—which, if you didn’t know, is an Irish moonshine pronounced “po-cheen”—she was sure to tell them not to worry about the language, which she has had to grapple with herself as an actor in Synge plays. “You give them these two pieces: You justify it?...
...cathedral here, has turned into one big street festival and in the afternoon, police motorcades with sirens blazing accompanied the arriving torch runners. After the flame was passed on, big crowds surrounded the doused torch, and people posed for pictures of them all along the busy Via Po...
...history, he says, "it has always found ways to reinvent itself." Torino has lived many lives. Closer both in kilometers and character to Paris than Palermo, this northwestern Italian city traces its early prominence to its position on the trade routes over the Alps, astride the busy River Po. It blossomed during the 11th century rise of the House of Savoy, one of Europe's oldest royal bloodlines: today in the Palazzo Reale visitors can view a snapshot of how one lived like a King two centuries ago. In the 16th century, Torino became an object of pilgrimage when...
...they wanted to, as illustrated in two small ornaments nearby that depict fierce tigers attacking defenseless deer. The museum also features an exceptional collection of tomb figures, or mingqi, especially from the Han dynasty (206 B.C. to 220 A.D.). The Han believed that humans have both a physical life (po) and a spiritual one (hun), and that at death the two go their separate ways. While the spirit journeys to paradise, the po remains in the tomb. There, it needs the same kinds of company and comforts that it enjoyed in life, which the mingqi were designed to provide...
...museum also features an exceptional collection of tomb figures, or mingqi, especially from the Han dynasty (206 B.C. to 220 A.D.). The Han believed that humans have both a physical life (po) and a spiritual one (hun), and that at death the two go their separate ways. While the spirit journeys to paradise, the po remains in the tomb. There, it needs the same kinds of company and comforts that it enjoyed in life, which the mingqi were designed to provide. The Cernuschi displays a vast array of these once-buried companions-dancers, musicians, cooks, soldiers and guardians, as well...