Word: appealling
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...demurred, saying the world of online gossip just did not appeal. "Every day there was some new drama and they would ruminate about it for hours," says Karpinski, who eventually graduated with...
...Gillette razors and Close-Up toothpaste. But of all the shadow stars that emerged from the early porn sensation - Linda Lovelace and Harry Reems of Deep Throat, Georgina Spelvin of Devil in Miss Jones - Chambers was unusual in her Waspy good looks, her girl-next-door appeal and her use of her real name at a time when other actors resorted to jokey pseudonyms. If the Ivory Snow girl could go into porn unashamed, then maybe the genre wasn't so sooty. She was different, and smart, in another way: when co-directors Jim and Artie Mitchell asked Chambers...
...color barrier in 1947—as events whose significance exceeded the narrow confines of sport. Discussing baseball’s uniquely pervasive standing in American culture, Goodwin and Burns emphasized that the familiar, generational aspect of baseball is key to the game’s appeal. Goodwin recalled her childhood habit of filling out box scores and recreating the game for her father, while Burns argued that stories about baseball, unlike those of other sports, “always begin ‘my mom?...
...HOLLIS to search different types of sources. “Our goal is to expand the scope of data, so you can have different sources made available to you in your search,” said Robinson. Students have commented on the new system’s visual appeal and search facility. “It’s important for Harvard to have a professional web presence,” said Lange P. Luntao ’12. “The old HOLLIS was not professional and seemed out of date.” But learning...
...shows the rape of the mother of Perseus (voluptuously spread on a coach) by Zeus, who has transformed himself into a shower of gold coins—a 24-carat money shot—to seduce her. The scene clearly had intense popular attraction, and transgressive erotic appeal, and one contemporary remarked that this version made one of Titian’s earlier editions of the scene look like a portrait of a nun. Where these artists made their fame and their fortunes, however, was with large-scale religious works for Venice’s hundreds of churches, and apparently...