Word: cupids
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...just saw the new issue of Cosmopolitan. For those of us who still don't feel clean enough, there is a new product on the market-a mod douche. Called "Cupid's Quiver," these "pre-measured sachets of liquid concentrate" come in four flavors: Orange Blossom, Raspherry, Jasmine and Champagne. "Relax," the ad commands. "And enjoy the revolution...
...across the surreal landscape of his boundless imagination. Never centers on a washed-up Shakespearean actor named Toby Dammit (Terence Stamp) who has come to Rome to star in "the first Catholic Western." He is hounded by his own self-contempt and haunted by a vision of a corrupt cupid from hell, a devil in crinoline (Marina Yaru), who appears before him bouncing a large and somehow ominous white ball. At the end, Toby terminates his pilgrimage and turns himself into a final sacrifice to Satan...
...importance of a character's setting extends to objects and backgrounds, which are very prominent in Sirk's films. Objects define people's character and actions (for example, a Cupid statue Count Volski admires in his gazebo betrays the childishness of his lecherous tendencies). They also cramp people in space; echo people's forms (often to savegely ironic effect--the statue in Volski's garden next to which Fyodor stands looking up at Olga); and in these ways subtly influence and define people's appearances and actions. Here, however, the influence is one-way. People cannot change objects as they...
Harvard's only loss came at the hands of "Cupid" Black, a former Yale star, who led the Newport Naval Reserves to a 14-0 romp over the Informals. Charley Barret, Cornell's All-American triple- threat quarter-back of 1915, left the Crimson defense in tatters...
...torrential outbursts and piston rhythms with which he electrified his audiences from Paris to Monterey during his brief reign as the crown prince of soul. But the album has other cuts of more typical pounding blues (I'm Coming Home and Don't Mess with Cupid), as well as some lighthearted badinage with Carla Thomas (Tramp...