Word: divas
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...grown favorites—The Temptations, Tim Allen, Anita Cochran, Dave Coulier (in case you didn’t satisfy your Full House fervor with “The B.J. Show” this year), and David Alan Grier. Even though the concert was, for the most part, Detroit Diva-free (Madonna and Aretha Franklin are from Detroit, too), my best friend and I decided to drive downtown and check out the scene...
...hometown of Greenland, N.H. Recalls Darlene Prickett of the Gallaudet publicity office: "Most people felt that with him gone, things could start going back to normal." Accordingly, on Feb. 2 the Phi Kappa Zeta sorority threw a party, open to all, at a downtown establishment called the Diva Club. "We don't care what kind of music it is, as long as the bass is going, the rhythm," says junior Rebecca Goldenbaum. It was the first big bash of the new semester. Like many of the revelers, junior Jason Lamberton straggled back to campus at dawn, as the trees blew...
...prostitution, fraud, the Mafia, and the off-the-court lives of several high-profile NBA stars. At the center of the trial is Gold Club owner Steven Kaplan, who has been indicted along with 16 others, including one former and one active Atlanta police officer and two dancers named "Diva" and "Frederique." Each is charged with enriching a criminal enterprise run by Kaplan. He, in turn, according to prosecutors, paid the Mafia's Gambino family for protection. Charges include credit card fraud, in which club employees are accused of padding the drink tab by selling $375 bottles of champagne, graciously...
...urges?they all seem to swoon in the telling of a story about Jade (radiant Japanese star Rie Miyazawa), a Kunqu Opera singer who marries into a noble house and falls into a near-lesbian relationship with her new master's mannish cousin Rong (Joey Wong, the premier ghost diva of '80s Hong Kong cinema). They don't make their sexual affinity explicit; as Jade sings in one of her ballads, "Words are not needed in such a beautiful silence." This is the love that need not speak its name...
...their seats as she led her fellow bandmates into the raucous “I Lied.” An irresistible combo of in-your-face sexuality and explosive rock, Halfcocked was a shot of pure musical adrenaline. The lead also flaunted her sensuality outrageously like some combination rock diva and exotic dancer, wriggling her hips, playing with her tongue and simulating oral sex on her bandmate’s guitar. Their four minute performance by itself was well worth the price of admission, showcasing as it did that appealing amalgam of sex and song, or as Holmes commented...