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...Zapata, America America) tends to write scenarios rather than novels. That might be acceptable except for the fact that his dramatis personae seem to be created for the viewer rather than the reader. Still, the novelist's ear for Greco-American intonations is uncanny, and his destructive bitch goddess is so lethal that her comeuppance deserves the kind of cheers villains received when they were foiled in the last acts of Victorian melodramas. Neither they nor Acts of Love should be mistaken for Greek tragedy...
Adapted from West's own script, Sextette has her portraying a movie sex goddess, not unlike the Mae of 40 years ago, who has just married her sixth husband. Sullivan and his partner, Daniel Briggs, originally suggested Cesar Romero, 71, for the part of No. 6. But Mae said he was too old, and she auditioned 1,000 of the handsomest unknowns in Hollywood. She was the one, after all, who spotted young Gary Grant and helped to make him a star in She Done Him Wrong. None of the 1,000 satisfied her, however, and she started looking...
...developing his argument, he gives explicit encouragement to the pursuit of that bitch-goddess, success. As shown by the Harvard Grant Study, a long term evaluation of the adaptations to life of the "healthiest" white male members of the classes of 1939 to 1944, achieving the bitch-goddess does not necessarily correlate with important indices of growth and maturity...
What the workmen found was not gold, but a treasure nonetheless. It has now been identified as a huge pre-Columbian bas-relief of the Aztec moon goddess Coyolxauhqui. Probably sculpted in the early 15th century, the circular stone, 3.3 meters (11 ft.) across and weighing some 20 tons, has relief images of the dismembered goddess's limbs, torso and head scattered all over its surface. The carnage depicts a well-known episode from Aztec mythology. When the mother of the gods was pregnant for the last time, so the story goes, her other offspring-the moon, planets...
...Thou, Nature, art my goddess, to thy law My services are bound. Wherefore should I Stand in the plague of custom, and permit The curiosity of nations to deprive me..." King Lear...