Word: goddesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tammy is a genie out of another bottle. From a mouth carved by a razor she lets slip songs and dialogue as if they were secret vices. Other people speak; Tammy makes animal noises. She looks like a love goddess playfully absent without leave from the moon...
Bopha is the daughter of Cambodia's Prince Sihanouk, who was the proud host. Graciously he explained the theme of the dance to the spectators: it concerned the encounter of Moni Mekhala, Goddess of Waters, with Ream Eyso, the Storm Spirit. If the mythology was a little confusing, that was only what the world had come to expect of His Royal Highness Norodom Sihanouk Varman, Cambodia's Retired King, Commander in Chief, Supreme National Leader of Buddhism - and known to some unkind Western detractors as "Snookie...
...Jawaharlal Nehru's home state of Uttar Pradesh, the legislative assembly was in turmoil. A member had just reported that a religious ascetic had performed a temple rite to the Hindu goddess of destruction, Durga, in order to take Nehru's life by magic. In New Delhi, a Socialist deputy was hooted down in the Lok Sabha (lower house of Parliament) by angry Congress Party members for asking: "Is it democratic for an ailing Prime Minister with a shaky, inaudible voice and trembling feet to reply to questions?" Through the uproar, a waxen, drowsy figure sat hunched over...
...fully adult, the mature self-sacrificing love that Madeleine offers becomes repulsive to him. Yet the twilight world of Cybele's precocity--a world filled with latent sexuality, but where no real consummation is ever possible--draws him irresistably. (In Greeks mythology, love of the goddess Cybele demanded the same transmutation of erotic drives. Her male devotees emasculated themselves to achieve estatic unity with...
...Beatles or Night Nerves. It's not the girl who proved no Goddess or the squash match he lost. And his bladder is no more prolific than formerly. One week Senior's roommates buy a dart board. Hours a day they play the same heavy game. Finally, in an act of will, they disregard the board and dismantle the darts. But it's not the dart game either. It's Thesis Thoughts...