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Olivia had always been stunningly beautiful, with a fantastic body and the face of a goddess. Boys flocked to her when we went clubbing, while I was nervously left picking at my nails. Fortunately, she was always ready to yell at me on the ride home to "shut up, you moron, because you are gorgeous and a wonderful person as well," practically smacking me up the head with her no-bullshit attitude while giving me the kind of honest, sincere praise that you can only believe from a true friend...

Author: By Sarah A. Rodriguez, | Title: Lessons From Olivia | 5/12/1999 | See Source »

More than a Greek Goddess...

Author: By Erica R. Michelstein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: GSE Students Mentor Seventh Grade Girls in Project Athena | 4/20/1999 | See Source »

...acceptance, they must treat women not as chattel but as people." There's no religious justification for the behavior: the 55-country Organization of the Islamic Conference refused to admit the Taliban. At the party, two of the few reporters who have been in the country, Christiane Amanpour, the Goddess of War Reporting, and Diane Sawyer, sent tapes about the virtual house arrest of the female population...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: All Wrapped Up with Nowhere to Go | 4/12/1999 | See Source »

...father, turned to his mother for help. Gaia, exhausted by repeated strenuous labor and angered by Uranus' tyranny, supplied her son a sickle with which to castrate his father, her husband. Mother Earth proceeded to devour Uranus's dismembered parts. The blood pouring from this violent deed fertilized the goddess, impregnating her with the Furies and the Giants. Gaia's story continues, recounting fertile "unions" with other deities, another son among them. A fruitful, polygamous man-eater, the original Gaia would have Dr. Lovelock's fruity, peaceful nurturer for breakfast...

Author: By V.p. DE Menil, | Title: NAME DROPPING | 3/18/1999 | See Source »

Looking at Madame Moitessier and her double, one can see why Ingres had such an obsessional hold on Picasso. All the dropsical women of his so-called classic period, the early 1920s, are peasant cousins of this goddess of the salon, and the rhythmic curves of Ingres's drawing would continue to serve Picasso as emblems of peace and sexual satisfaction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Faces of an Epoch | 3/8/1999 | See Source »

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