Word: goddesses
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Loues Kane, of the College Shop, had two sellouts--whiskey-flavored toothpaste and a clay figure called "Zulu Booboo, the Goddess of Fertility." In the dentifrice department, the bourbon flavor is the most popular...
...documentary but "a show, with accurate physical facts-a fresh attempt to glamorize science." So are his three upcoming TV ventures for Bell: Hemo, The Magnificent, the story of blood and circulation; The Strange Case of the Cosmic Rays, treated as "a detective story"; and The Unchained Goddess, on weather and meteorology. Like Sun, each will bear the endorsement of the nation's most eminent scientists, be released at three-month intervals. The human spirit, Capra explains, has three main outlets: the artistic, religious and scientific. "They are all after the same truth. The artistic tries to find...
...plopped his 1856 Victorians right into the midst of Czarist Russia (1896)--where people apparently were less set in their ways--and then into the midst of Nixon California (1956) where people apparently are. This is achieved through supernatural power--specifically, the will of the sexy Aurora, Goddess of the Dawn, who has given her Victorian lover-loafer the gift of immortality. We follow him through the three ages into senility, and we learn that loafers are almost never happy and that the restless will always be restless. The message is not very significant, but it has lots of vitality...
...DOVES OF VENUS, by Olivia Manning (313 pp.;Abelard-Schuman; $3.50), pull the chariot of the goddess of love, according to classic mythology. The doves of British Author Manning's novel are yoked to illusions about love. Dove No. 1 is a breathless 18-year-old country girl named Ellie Parsons whose ideal of love is losing her virginity to Quintin Bellot, a middle-aging charmer-about-London. Dove No. 2 is married to Dove No. I's Prince Charming, but Petta Bellot has always operated on the theory that variety is the spice of love. Since Quintin...
...second-rate work. It is a rare operatic phenomenon in that the libretto is not much sillier than the score. The story takes place during the Roman occupation of Gaul. Norma is a Druid high priestess, who, though pledged to virginity in the service of the moon goddess, has borne two children of the Roman proconsul. When he casts her off for another Druid priestess, Norma arouses the local underground against him. But in the end she repents, publicly confesses her sins and goes to the fire with her lover, who, for obscure reasons, is ready to die with...