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...“Of course, we renamed the ‘Burning Man’ ‘Burning Mag’, in Magnus’s honour,” says Fiennes, whose other famous siblings include the actors Ralph and Joseph, and documentary filmmaker Sophie....
...Curated by artistic director Kevin O’Hare, the first of four programmes offered a company timeline in eight titbits — from the pagan-neoclassical founding choreographer Frederick Ashton to his more morbid...
...The twisting pose of the second version, with its dynamic forward foot, is more complex, further from pagan models, more pious — and more anxious....
...One claimant is Joseph Malin, a Jewish boy in London’s East End, who is supposed to have started the first fish and chip shop in 1860....
...Accompanied by the drone of traditional gaida bagpipes and the beat of sacred drums, a semi-pagan ritual is played out as dancers enter a trance-like state before walking barefoot on to a pit of glowing...
...So when Joseph Banks, Cook’s scientific officer, returned from the first voyage in 1771 with the skin of an immature female kangaroo, killed at the Endeavour River in what is now Queensland, it was natural...
...Perpetua and her pregnant slave-girl Felicity were thrown to wild beasts for their refusal to participate in pagan rites....
...Still less was that the case for Joseph ibn Naghrela, a vizier of 11-century Granada, who possibly created the first luxurious palace on the Alhambra hill, or Samuel Abulafia, whose 14th-century Tránsito...
...Whatever the origin, insisting this essentially pagan celebration of the equinox has anything to do with St Joseph or Christian rites doesn’t stick: there is none of the seriousness of the Easter processions...
...David Flusfeder is the author of ‘The Pagan House’ (Harper Perennial)...
...He was helped by a distinguished team of restorers, such as Bartolomeo Cavaceppi and the English sculptor Joseph Nollekens....
...Shaffer’s Atahuallpa believes he is divine, but Joseph makes that seem merely a form of camp....
...It is credited, along with army attorney general Joseph Welch’s famous rebuke to McCarthy himself (”Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?”)...
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