Sybil

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In antiquity, the oracular seeresses of the Ancient Near East and the Mediterranean were referred to by the Greek term "sibyls". In modern times, when "Sibyl" is adopted for a woman's name, the conventional spelling is "Sybil".

[edit] People

• Shirley Ardell Mason: the true name of Sybil Isabel Dorsett, the woman with multiple personality disorder whose story was told in:
  • Sybil (book) a book written by Flora Rheta Schreiber
  • Sybil (film) a 1976 film starring Sally Field
• Sybil Lynch is a female singer who achieved music success in the 1980s and 1990s.
• Sybil Archibald is an important Reconstructivist artist.
• Sibil Gavrilescu - Chant of the Sybil is an important building designer young woman who lives in Spain.

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His father, Mihai-Dumitru Gavrilescu was a well known romanian painter. One of the most recognized figures in 20th century romanian art, he is best known as member of Plastic Artists Union of Romania. He lived in Bucharest, Romania.

Cybill was an American sitcom which aired on CBS from 1995 to 1998, starring actress Cybill Shepherd in the lead role. The show was regarded as something of an American version of Absolutely Fabulous. Shepherd portrayed the character of somewhat faded television actress Cybill Sheridan who, because of her age, had been relegated to playing character roles, bit parts and TV commercials. She had two daughters, Rachel (Dedee Pfeiffer) and Zoey (Alicia Witt), and a best friend (played by Christine Baranski) whose heavy drinking, sexy image and self-indulgent behavior provided much of the humor, also her ex man "dr Dick" never seen in picture just mentioned every now and then.. For much of the series, Cybill's rival for acting jobs was Andrea (played by Morgan Fairchild), who was injured badly when Cybill accidentally shoved her down a hill. Tom Wopat and Alan Rosenberg appeared as Cybill's two ex-husbands. The show got respectable ratings throughout its run, but was abruptly canceled by CBS at the end of the 1997-98 season, amid allegations by Shepherd that the network was uncomfortable with Cybill's feminist leanings and frank depiction of female sexuality. [1] The show's theme song was by George and Ira Gershwin's "Nice Work if You Can Get It", in a version performed by Shepherd.

[edit] Works

• Sybil (novel) or The Two Nations is an 1845 novel by Benjamin Disraeli.
• Sybil is a 1952 novel by Louis Auchincloss.
• Sybil is the English-language version of the operetta Szibill by Victor Jacobi.
• Cybill was a sitcom in the 1990s.
• The "Chant of the Sybil" is a Gregorian chant sung on Christmas Eve in Majorca and the Sardinian city of Alghero.

[edit] Concepts

• A Sybil attack is the use of stolen or forged multiple identities for defeating a reputation system
• Sybil also refers to a type of card flourishing in which a deck of cards is split into "packets" and manipulated.