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...industry's mantle spread around the world, new immigrant stars filled important character niches. The Latin lover: Rudolph Valentino (Italy); the noble warlord: Sessue Hayakawa (Japan); the tragic heroine: Pola Negri (Poland); the vamp goddess: Greta Garbo (Sweden). Nor was the flood stanched with the arrival of talking pictures in the late 1920s. Hollywood saw the Babel of exotic accents as one more earnest of its cosmopolitan reach. And so Maurice Chevalier and Charles Boyer brought their suavity from France; Marlene Dietrich (Germany), Hedy Lamarr (Austria) and Ingrid Bergman (Sweden) helped Garbo flesh out the fantasy of the European woman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Magic Shadows From a Melting Pot for New Americans, the Movies Offered the Ticket for Assimilation | 7/8/1985 | See Source »

Mary Paul and Lisa Rowning were in "Art and Politics" lecture one day when they saw slide of the Goddess Fortuna. Paul began calling her teammate "Fortuna," and the name stuck...

Author: By Jessica Dorman, | Title: Myrtle, Fortuna, and Pigpen Make for a Good Time | 5/22/1985 | See Source »

...They only saw," Co-captain briefly," Co-Captain Joan Cunningham, explains. "It was probably a goddess-like figure, and it probably had blonde hair." Rowning (a blonde) concedes, "I couldn't do much about...

Author: By Jessica Dorman, | Title: Myrtle, Fortuna, and Pigpen Make for a Good Time | 5/22/1985 | See Source »

...third the mass and only one one-thousandth the brilliance of the sun. When it passed through the Oort cloud, it would dislodge a billion or more comets. Muller, searching for an appropriate name for the lethal companion, considered several. But the one that stuck was Nemesis, the Greek goddess who punishes the proud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Did Comets Kill the Dinosaurs? | 5/6/1985 | See Source »

...typical performance, it was not unusual to hear an impeccably played piano passage which drew heavily on Liszt, followed by a chant to the goddess Yemaya, followed by an extended conga solo, which in turn would be followed by a blues tune based on Mozart--all unmistakably Irakere...

Author: By Kevin Carter, | Title: From Cuba With Love | 1/18/1985 | See Source »

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