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...ensure that each costume has at least a hint of either the disco era or flower power. For example, the priests wear bellbottoms or a long, flowery skirt with a headscarf. The dresses of Juno and those of Iris (Aria L. Guarino ’13), the goddess of the rainbow and handmaiden to Juno, are ball gowns with an inner layer of flashy neon fabric showing through. Although the costumes remain fairly true to the ’70s setting throughout the show, at one point, Jupiter changes from his mortal appearance—decked in a brown leather...
Motherhood certainly agrees with Thurman, who is mom to two kids by ex-husband Ethan Hawke. At the cusp of 40, she looks radiant even with disheveled brown hair and non-sexy librarian glasses. The action hero goddess is virtually unrecognizable, but there’s something strangely appealing about how dysfunctional the 6-foot-tall Thurman looks running around in her tattered aprons and dorky Birkenstocks. Motherhood for Eliza is ultimately about accepting limitations on her time and energy, and learning slowly that children are what motivate her to live a passionate life. Thurman fully embraces the many facets...
...midst of the newly rekindled debate, two excellent biographies have just been published: Ayn Rand and the World She Made, by Anne C. Heller (Doubleday; 592 pages), is a comprehensive study, in novelistic detail, of Rand's personal life, and Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right, by Jennifer Burns (Oxford; 369 pages), leans more heavily on Rand's theories and politics...
Lincoln's assassination initiated an even more long-lasting tribute to Moses, the Statue of Liberty, given to America by the French to honor the slain President. The sculptor, Frédéric Bartholdi, chose the goddess of liberty as his model, but he enhanced her with two icons from Moses: the nimbus of light around her head and the tablet in her arms, both from the moment Moses descends Mount Sinai with the Ten Commandments. The message: Freedom comes with...
...there's nothing more fearsome than the liberal establishment in uproar. After protests from prominent fans of the Observer such as writer Martin Amis, actors Simon Callow and Colin Firth, kitchen goddess Nigella Lawson and musicians Damon Albarn and Dizzee Rascal, GMG issued a statement confirming that the Observer would survive. But the statement also spoke of a "greater degree of integration between the editorial teams of the Guardian and Observer." A "new look" Observer, expected to be leaner, is in development. (Read "Music: That Rascally Rapper...