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cristina
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
fem. proper name, the native form of Latin Christiana, fem. of Christianus (see Christian). In the Middle Ages, the masculine form of the name (Cristian) was less popular in England than the feminine, though Christian was common in Brittany. Surnames Christie, Chrystal, etc. represent common Northern and Scottish pet forms of the names.
Wikipedia
Cristina may refer to:
- Cristina, a municipality in province of Badajoz in Spanish
- Cristina, a municipality in Brazil
- Cristina (film)
- Cristina, a genus of harvestmen (daddy long-legs), eight-legged invertebrate animals
Cristina Monet-Palaci (born 2 January 1959), known professionally as Cristina, is an American singer and writer, best known for her no wave recordings made for Ze Records around 1980 in New York.
A Harvard drop-out, and the daughter of a French psychoanalyst and an American illustrator-novelist-playwright, she was working as a writer for The Village Voice when she met Michael Zilkha, who later became her husband. A wealthy heir to England's Mothercare retail empire, Zilkha was just starting ZE Records with Michel Esteban. Zilkha persuaded her to record a song called "Disco Clone", an eccentric pastiche dance record written by Ronald Melrose, a classmate of hers at Harvard. The original recording, released as ZE001, was produced by John Cale and was the first to be issued on the ZE label. A later version featured the uncredited Kevin Kline trying to seduce the breathy Cristina.
"Disco Clone" was a cult success and encouraged ZE to release a full-length album in 1980, which was produced by August Darnell of Kid Creole & The Coconuts. The album was later reissued as Doll in the Box. Cristina also issued, on a 12" single, a poker-faced cover of Peggy Lee's " Is That All There Is?" with new lyrics which led its authors, Leiber and Stoller, to sue and get it withdrawn for many years. Later, she released a cover of the Beatles' " Drive My Car" (also released as "Baby You Can Drive My Car"). She also released a track, "Things Fall Apart", produced by Was (Not Was), on ZE's Christmas Record, in 1981.
Cristina's second album, Sleep It Off, was produced by Don Was and released in 1984 with a sleeve design by Jean-Paul Goude (a year before he used the same idea for Grace Jones). Her lyrics dryly detailed a world of urban decadence, but the record flopped, and Cristina retired to domestic life in Texas. She and Zilkha divorced in 1990 and she returned to New York. She has more recently contributed learned essays and reviews to publications such as London's Times Literary Supplement, while battling a debilitating illness. Her two albums for ZE were reissued in 2005.
'Cristina ' is a 1946 Argentine comedy-drama film directed by Francisco Múgica and starring Zully Moreno, Esteban Serrador and Alberto Closas.
Cristina is a genus of harvestmen in the family Phalangiidae.
Usage examples of "cristina".
Holding court for the season at their Pisan palace, Their Serene Highnesses Cosimo II, Archduchess Maria Maddalena, and Grand Duchess Mother Madama Cristina filled the seats around their table three times a day with interesting conversationalists who could inform them on a variety of subjects.
Madama Cristina wanted to know their position, whereupon the talk turned to the necessity of their being real objects and not illusions of the telescope.
I left, but I had hardly come out of the palace when I was overtaken by the porter of Madama Cristina, who had recalled me.
Madama Cristina, it seems to me that it was most prudently propounded to you by her, and conceded and established by you, that Holy Scripture cannot err and the decrees therein contained are absolutely true and inviolable.
While bedridden, he recast his informal letter to Castelli into a much longer, more referenced treatise addressed to Madama Cristina herself.
Galileo directed these comments to Madama Cristina, he refrained from accusing her of the same injustices, which she had committed without malice.
Until Ferdinando reached majority, however, he deferred perforce in all matters to the judgment of his regents: his mother, Archduchess Maria Maddalena of Austria, and his grandmother, the dowager Grand Duchess Cristina of Lorraine.
He walked up Hidalgo past the cathedral to the Plaza de Armas and checked into the Reina Cristina Hotel.