Word: goddess
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...when Harold Miller eloped for the first time, he was 22-and his bride was 13. Her name was Roberta, but Miller called her Diana, after the virgin Roman goddess of the hunt. Roberta-Diana died at age 20 from the effects of sniffing cleaning fluid to get high...
...work is highly ornamental. Two metal plates, for instance, are engraved with images of fish and deer. A 9-in.-sq. metal flag, attached to a yard-long staff adorned by an eagle, is decorated with two seated lions and a bull. The flag also depicts a goddess and several other women, perhaps her attendants, which suggests that it may once have been displayed in a temple...
More rewarding was the aptly named Jackpot by Gerald Arpino, the company's resident choreographer. It was a mod, witty duet that suggested a Greek god and goddess having a sexual romp in outer space. As the curtain lifted, a shower of colored star beams descended to reveal Glenn White flexing his muscles on a cube-shaped platform. From behind the cube popped the curvy figure of Erika Goodman, who led White on a merry chase that culminated twelve minutes later in a highly suggestive climax. The cube lit up, a smoke bomb went off, rubber balls soared through...
...nature which is miraculous and benign. No longer does the automobile express mere speed, but speed with natural grace. Its surface and shape defy the sense of touch, make it seem already in motion, and imply a nature which is orderly and self-coherent. It is like a goddess who brings the order of heaven down to earth--and prostitutes herself to every petit-bourgeois who can afford the monthly payments...
Goodbye, Columbus. This metropolitan New York "Graduate" was probably Radcliffe's biggest recruiter before "Love Story." Ali McGraw plays the ultimate bitch-goddess to Richard Benjamin's witty but unambitious librarian in the 1969 adaptation of the Philip Roth novella. First time on TV. CH. 5, 9 p.m. Color...