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...stream," as her disciple and U.S. spokesperson Pamela Millar describes it. The Supreme Master's lectures are laced with Taoist, Buddhist and Christian references (she likes the Bible verse "In the beginning was the Word...and the Word was God.") She denies she is an incarnation of the Chinese goddess of mercy. Still, her publications and Website always capitalize pronouns that refer to her. Suma Ching Hai simply says she is enlightened and that "there are certain things that I know...
...gods on Mount Olympus know, of course: Odysseus has been stranded for seven years on the island of Calypso, a goddess who loves him and has offered to "make the man immortal, ageless, all his days." But Odysseus says no. He wants to go home. Those who have never read any translation of the Odyssey will find much that is familiar in Fagles' retelling of the hero's homeward adventures. The cannibalistic one-eyed giant Polyphemus; Circe, the temptress who turns her prospective lovers into swine; the Sirens, whose songs lure seafarers to shipwreck: we have somehow heard...
When Durga Pokhrel was born in a small mountain village in Nepal, astrologers foretold that if she were born female, she would be as strong as a son. Appropriately named after the Hindu goddess of power, Durga went on to pursue a turbulent career as teacher, journalist and democratic and human rights activist in Nepal, during which her strength and constancy were severely tested. Contrary to the wishes of her conservative Hindu family, she became a scholar and university lecturer, but was blacklisted by the government for her political activities and eventually expelled from the university where she taught...
...smart. Greta Garbo drove men to their doom; Barbara Stanwyck did the same and went along for the ride. Carole Lombard traded quips and punches with her co-stars. Rosalind Russell ran giant corporations from her perch as executive secretary to some very soft plutocrats. Katharine Hepburn, a cool goddess, came to earth to cuddle with Spencer Tracy. Bette Davis strutted her sensationally neurotic hauteur. Joan Crawford played the unapologetic gold digger, which is how she leveled half a dozen other star actresses in The Women. These actresses played characters who didn't need to take revenge. They had sexual...
...owner of the Clericuzio-controlled Xanadu Hotel in Las Vegas, and ruthless Eli Marrion, geriatric head of LoddStone Studios, are, like the Don, the novel's honored guests. Puzo's younger heroes are fewer but conspicuous: the Don's Adonis-like grandnephew Croccifixio ("Cross") De Lena and his film-goddess girlfriend, Athena Aquitane. The book's fools and villains are ruled by passions, impulses and grotesque egos. A degenerate gambler and loudmouthed deadbeat lurches obnoxiously toward his inevitable fate. A hit man, perversely named Dante, wears gaudy Renaissance-style hats and takes too much pleasure in his work...