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...goddesses was Aphrodite, identified by peoples in conquered Egypt and Syria with Isis. She was commonly portrayed primping at her mirror, fixing her hair or adjusting her sandal. St. Augustine testifies that even in his time (the 4th century A.D.) her worshipers repeated these gestures in front of her idol as a form of veneration...
...Berkeley from 1955 to 1959, and will presumably accept one of the academic offers he has received from Northwestern, Brandeis and Berkeley. The U.S. Government is amenable to the plan (Papandreou's wife and four children are American citizens), and the junta is delighted. "He is the idol of the whole world, isn't he?" cracked Deputy Premier Stylianos Pattakos. "He may go where he pleases...
...Gesture. Even when he is not making music, Mehta exerts the near-hypnotic spell of a gregarious, cultivated gypsy. He is small (5 ft. 7 in., 155 Ibs.), but his tousled sable locks, his honey-colored aquiline features and voracious energy give him the appeal of a matinee idol and make him a kind of culture hero. Even the English translation of his first name-"powerful sword"-seems to personify his character. In Los Angeles, strangers hail him as "Zubi baby." Everywhere, the wealthy and famous seek him out, and females from teeny-boppers to blue-haired patronesses shiver
...Khyem-muh. Rudolf Nureyev can't look like I look. You know like I guess you could say I got a unique face. I mean the only person who's got a face that even comes close to mine is Margaret Rutherford. That's my idol." Cheetah also uncovered the "first great mass producer of LSD," a University of Virginia drop-out named Augustus Owsley Stanley III. Operating in a way that might have made a financial success of Edgar Allan Poe, Owsley married a sensuous U.C.L.A. chemistry major and went into acid production in a laboratory...
...girdled ladies and hot men, performs a dance in which she and a long-stemmed wine bottle make love. Then when she and her policeman are in church--he's praying and she's seducing him--Metzger cuts from her to a picture of the Virgin Mary. From one idol to another...