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Known for her creativity and her intense work ethic, she once said she had ambitions to be known as the “Goddess of Design” and cited Mary Quant and Mondrian as her primary sources of inspiration, according to the FM article...
...that begins "My darling Wombat." The bric-a-brac of the dead is always sad. That Diana's was picked through in a courtroom full of tabloid reporters taking shorthand was doubly so, but also powerfully reminiscent of her life, both tawdry and irresistible: little bits of the goddess preserved in plastic bags, relics of a media saint. Prosecutor William Boyce said Diana's mother and sister will testify during the six-week trial that Burrell, 44, had no right to these things. But he did have access: he lived in Kensington Palace for 10 months after her death...
Finus is the Actaeon of this uniquely Mississippi myth. In 1916, he spies the youthful Birdie turning naked cartwheels in the woods. This encounter with the goddess-like teenager metamorphoses Finus; he becomes a stag...
...coffee grows. It's an environment conducive to reverie, and meditation is encouraged?especially on the banks of the nearby Cauvery, one of the seven holy rivers of India. Most Indians worship rivers as givers of life, and local guides will gladly sing in praise of the river goddess to set you in the mood for some quiet contemplation. Providing, of course, you haven't had too many cups of coffee...
...fanatics who died shouting banzai for the Emperor," says Hatsuyo Torihama, who is married to another of Tome's grandchildren. Tome waged a one-woman battle to untaint their memory, showing the soldiers' photos to customers and collecting donations for the town to put up a statue of the goddess of mercy in 1955. "But no one came," says Hatsuyo. "Not a soul...