Word: goddess
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Beginning was the Woman. Goddess of All Things," she rose naked out of Chaos, danced so wildly that great wind sprang up. The goddess caressed the wind and it became a great serpent which coiled itself lustfully around her. The goddess became pregnant, assumed a dove's form laid "the Universal Egg." Out of the Egg tumbled all things that exist sun, moon, planets, stars, the earth with its mountains and rivers, its trees, herbs and living creatures." Swollen with pride the serpent declared himself "the author ot tne universe," which made the goddess so angry that she kicked...
...grandson Anthony Glyn (nom de plume for Sir Geoffrey Davson, Baronet) makes plain in his slightly pious but consistently entertaining biography, the woman behind the legend was no pan-therish love goddess but a proper Victorian who put little sex into her books and found no satisfying love in her life...
...Golden Hand) retells the dark, doom-laden Nibelungenlied. The events in it are drawn from somewhat different sources from the ones Wagner used in his familiar brooding operas. Siegfried, hero of the Rhine, jilts Brunhilde and marries a princess of Burgundy named Kriemhild. Brunhilde, a kind of earth-mother goddess, carries a torch for her lost love, but Hagen, the One-eyed, who believes the pagan gods have been flouted by this turn of affairs, pries from Kriemhild the secret of Siegfried's sole weakness. In slaying the sacred dragon of the Dwarf people, Siegfried has been drenched...
...phone equipped with a special speaker. In Los Angeles a cab driver announced happily that, "Everybody's tipping big today, even women." The highways were lined with the most spectacular parade of new cars in history, from Ford Crestliners in magenta and ivory to Cadillac Eldorados in "goddess gold" and Wedgwood green...
Oscar-winning Cinemactress Grace (The Country Girl) Kelly, commonly billed as an icy goddess, melted perceptibly in the company of French Actor Jean-Pierre Aumont, a widower since his wife, fiery Cinemactress Maria Montez, died in 1951. Reunited at the Cannes Film Festival after two years apart, Grace and handsome Aumont promptly began to act as if the thing were bigger than both of them. They danced on clouds, held and kissed each other's hands in cozy rendezvous, mooned at each other in public. But had Aumont, who came and thawed, actually conquered Grace? Said...