Word: goddesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...archer "Heracles;" from the classical serenity of his "Head of the Figure Called Strength" to the expressionistic grimacing of his head of Beethoven. Rodin created individuals; Bourdelle, types. He idealized, modeling a Hercules who epitomized brute strength and a nude who was simply a series of smooth curves, more goddess than woman. His nude and his Hercules look totally different, but they reveal the same approach toward art, the same distillation of natural extremes...
...Group (this is before Kay's death) has gathered to meet Lakey, the Group goddess, fairest link in the Daisy Chain (the prettiest sophomores chosen each year by the seniors), on her return from Europe. How has this incomparable green-eyed beauty defeated the fates that have battered them? Agog, the seven watch Lakey land with 17 trunks and suitcases crammed with clothes, art loot-and a stubby "baroness," her constant companion. Slowly these green girls (some mothers by now) come to understand that Lakey, the Madonna of the Smoking Room, is a Lesbian. She has defeated...
...muted with familiar gestures and folk costumes. As the flight to the desert progressed, their vision became more provincial, and the classicism was discarded. Their sculpture grew smaller and more personal, painting became fragmentary instead of monumental. There is a childlike naivete in the coy games of god and goddess, the paper-doll stare of a saint, the back-patting of Christ and a monk (see color...
...protection you have between you and your audience is your concentration," said Carroll Baker. So, concentrating mightily her first day on the set of Harold Robbins' sexaggerated The Carpetbaggers, Actress Baker, 32, emerged buff from the bath and slithered to her vanity table. Playing the role of Hollywood Goddess Rina Marlowe, Carroll felt only a bit unnatural au naturel during the scene's eight takes. Said she: "Nobody made any jokes. Everybody behaved just beautifully." Everybody in this case included a censor who will be on the set full time so as not to miss anything that...
There was another swimming pool in Christine Keeler's life before the one at Cliveden. As a young girl, she would often swim in the muddy gravel pits near the dingy, Thames-side town of Wraysbury. Envious of her looks, her girl friends called her the "Goddess of the Gravel Pits." "I remember Christine stepping from the water," says one childhood chum. "Her homemade bikini of yellow jersey wool clung...