Mary Woolnoth as a death-suffused locale may be found in modernist literature.

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Mom may like Mary better than Beth or Tommy for a whole bunch of reasons.

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At first and 35, you may be tempted to go for a "Hail Mary" and make up yardage all at once.

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This year the provincial administration persuaded the ecclesiastical authorities to collaborate in marking the month of May, traditionally dedicated to the Virgin Mary, with a celebration that combined pagan and Catholic ritual.

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The defense's game plan may last well into April, but without a successful Hail Mary pass, it will come up short of preventing a conviction.

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That may help to explain why Mary Robinson's election in 1990 heralded a more liberal and less Catholic country while seven years later Mary McAleese's "bridge-building" theme foreshadowed what politicians south of the border believe was the reconciliation of the Good Friday Agreement a year later.

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If you do not want to see Mary with an unlit cigarette cradling a bottle of booze while splayed out on a table, this may not be the play for you.

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Look at the adulation showered on The Row, a line of luxe basics designed by Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen (who are also, may I add, women).

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There are no sketches or documents relating to the Sistine Madonna's composition, but the museum fills this gap by exhibiting several other Raphaels, including the famous portrait (on loan from the Uffizi) of a melancholy Julius II slumped in his red throne and a portrait of the noblewomen Donna Velata, whose noble features may have inspired Raphael's depiction of Mary in the Sistine Madonna.

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