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Chief Ron Thomas is a good guy but maybe he should start kicking some rear-ends.
Jim Hannifin Sr., Denver
Skimpy women’s uniforms raise questions about respect
Have we lost our sense of dignity, respect, and honor for the professionals who work so diligently to prepare themselves to be worthy of performing for the world’s greatest audience?
Note the blue dress on the central woman, matching the blue robe worn by Jesus in the da Vinci painting. If people have taken any offense, we are really sorry.”
Jolly said the segment was an “interpretation of the Greek god Dionysus [that] makes us aware of the absurdity of violence between human beings.”
“The idea was to create a big pagan party in link with the god of Mount Olympus, and you will never find in me, or in my work, any desire of mocking anyone,” Jolly added.
Regardless, critics have compared side-by-side images of the segment, and it bears a striking resemblance to da Vinci’s painting.
The performance displayed people in drag, dancing and singing on a long table-like runway.
Of course, by helping them evade consequences for their illegal actions, they created an obligation to support and vote for the political groups supporting them.
Right is right, wrong is wrong, and fair is fair. And if you think about it, doing a mashup of one of Christianity’s most sacred moments with a scene of Bacchanalian debauchery isn’t really any less gratuitously provocative, offensive, or inappropriate for a ceremony intended to promote the unifying power of sport, is it?
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The eldest daughter of the Church, in modern times turned hotbed of atheism, heresy, subversion, anticlericalism, and laïcisme, has in its cultural bones a complicated impulse of love and loathing for the Faith. Art (to use the term loosely) is often multivalent. From Andy Warhol to ‘The Simpsons,’ many have done it before him.”
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Another spokesperson apologized for any offense the performance caused.
They realized years ago that they would never get the changes they wanted through congressional legislation, so they rationalized creating a gigantic problem to force the nation to contend with the illegal aliens by overwhelming the laws, facilities, and systems to accommodate legal immigration. There are details of the actual performance that pertain to the Last Supper scene more than the Greek myth.
One performer, who was painted all blue, dressed as the main meal.
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Following the performance, Leslie Barbara Butch, a French DJ and lesbian activist who was the center of segment, posted an image of the performance next to an image of “The Last Supper” on Instagram and said, “Oh Yes!
Oh Yes! The New Gay Testament.”
Something’s fishy in Paris
Apparently, many people think all the backlash for the Paris Olympic opening ceremony is from uneducated, right-wing Christian zealots who should “learn something,” “chill,” or, as The View’s Caryn Elaine “Whoopie” Johnson advised, “just turn the TV off.”
I am a rube — of the nonreligious, apolitical variety.
Is it necessary to expose women’s bodies in this way and does the brief attire advance chances of winning the gold?
Constance Grotel, Lakewood
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Even with my backwoods education, I immediately discerned central figures in colors and poses reminiscent of Leonardo da Vinci’s 15th-century painting “The Last Supper.” Olympics organizers reported that Jan van Bijlert’s “The Feast of the Gods,” painted over a century later, was the purported muse for this production.
This was followed by an infusion of Greco-Roman mythology.
Indeed, the painting that the ceremony’s creative director Thomas Jolly is widely presumed—including by his defenders—to be riffing on, Jan van Bijlert’s Feast of the Gods, was itself a deliberate play on the Last Supper as it is often composed in art, most famously in Leonardo da Vinci’s painting. Representatives of the Olympic organizing committee reportedly owned up that “Thomas Jolly took inspiration from Leonardo da Vinci’s famous painting to create the setting.” At least two of the performers involved in the performance that some reports are calling a “vogue”—a form of gay performance art—said they were aware that it was a Last Supper parody, with the woman occupying the central Jesus position calling it a “new gay testament.”
Furthermore, multiple reports have claimed that the official name for the segment supplied to the media was La Cène sur un Scène sur la Seine—a triple homophone that means “The Last Supper on Stage on the Seine.” I haven’t found official confirmation of this, so perhaps it’s not true; or perhaps it has since been scrubbed, as the whole video of the incident has from the Olympic website.
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Gaslit By the Olympic Torch
1. Rewarding illegal aliens for their proficiency at breaking our laws is neither right nor fair.
Gordon Carleton, Pueblo West
Dwindling police presence, traffic enforcement
Re: “Cities scaled back traffic stops, and road deaths soared,” New York Times news story, Aug.
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I’ve come to think that the Denver Police Department has become a public Rent-a-Cop operation. Kate Steinle, Laken Riley, and Jocelyn Nagaray would very likely disagree with him if only they could.
Unfortunately, there are political groups whose goal is to enable and facilitate illegal aliens breaking our nation’s laws to increase their membership.
Although the performance’s artistic director, Thomas Jolly, has claimed his inspiration for the segment was not “The Last Supper,” producers of the ceremonies said otherwise.
A statement obtained by TheWrap said, “For the ‘Festivities’ segment, Thomas Jolly took inspiration from Leonardo da Vinci’s famous painting to create the setting.
Notwithstanding Jolly’s protest, comments made by other producers of and participants in the event say flat-out that the Last Supper was at least one of the elements they were going for. [The Opening Ceremony] tried to celebrate community tolerance,” said Anne Descamps during a press conference. The organizers could have set out to capture different aspects of, or combine, both the Dionysius scene and the Last Supper.
I continually hear about how long a call for service takes and still see a multitude of expired license plates. But it’s certainly plausible.
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