The word "madonna" is usable in written English and is well written.
It can be used to refer to a woman of high status or as a title for the Virgin Mary in Christian contexts.
Example: "The artist painted a beautiful madonna, capturing her grace and serenity."
Alternatives: "Lady" or "Dame".
Perhaps it was a bold, metaphorical design statement - a woman, uncertain of her role as wife, madonna and whore, expressing her sexuality by hurling the trappings of her repressed womanhood across the void into the 21st century.
New albums by Madonna, Radiohead and others are available online long before their official release; last week Madonna even resorted to flooding file-sharing services with expletive-carrying bogus files in an attempt to confuse pirates and boost sales of her new album, "American Life".
Madonna ruffled feathers during the Guy Ritchie years by boasting about hunting pheasant: "I like being one of the chaps.
While it can be hard to tell at times whether or not she's in on the joke, in some moments (like this birthday tribute to Madonna) she's a knowing comedic genius, and it's clear that she's trying to make herself laugh as much as anyone else.
"I think you have to be mentally ill to be really famous … If you're like Madonna, then you're properly mentally ill, basically.
I may as well have said: 'I'm a eunuch!' "NME tore into me because the way I dropped my pants wasn't the way Madonna would have done it, or some shit.
Two years later, a serio-comedy, The Next Best Thing, with Madonna and Rupert Everett, emerged to lethal notices.
Held at the Royal Palace, it will include some of his most important paintings – such as the Dreyfus Madonna – and an impressive selection of drawings.
This began to change with the rise of the Mudd Club, a downtown venue that pulled all the threads together: musicians (David Byrne, Debbie Harry, Madonna), visual artists (Andy Warhol, Keith Haring, Jean-Michel Basquiat), performers (Klaus Nomi, John Sex, Divine) and more.
Real celebrities such as Pharrell Williams, Madonna and Miley Cyrus also put on exhibitions, or at least put their names to them.
Susan Sarandon, Bjork, PJ Harvey, Madonna and Marissa Meyer have all distanced themselves from the label, to name just a few.
