Word: marilyns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Gamy Sexuality. Black claims that there is "a lot of Marilyn Monroe in me," but she disdains the traditional glamorizing process of Hollywood-all the makeup and surgery that can camouflage every flaw. She has capitalized on her defects as well as her virtues. Her image is to look scruffy and a little disassembled. Black brings to all her roles a freewheeling combination of raunch and winsomeness. Sometimes she is kittenish. At other times she has an overripe quality that makes her look like the kind of woman who gets her name tattooed on sailors...
Some 325 members strong, the Met flew to Japan for a three-week visit. The company brought along stars like Joan Sutherland, Marilyn Home, Adriana Maliponte, Luciano Pavarotti, Franco Corelli and John Alexander, and three of the most popular works in its repertory: Puccini's La Bohème, Bizet's Carmen and Verdi's La Traviata. The stand began with Traviata at Tokyo's 4,000-seat NHK (Nippon Hoso Kyokai, or Japan Broadcasting Corp.) Hall. With Soprano Sutherland dying rapturously as Violetta and Tenor Alexander showing a cad's remorse as Alfredo...
...with their pens, their eyes gazing mindlessly into space, nervous smiles on their faces, waiting for some big star to arrive and inject some excitement into their lives. Their relationship with the film idols is a symbiotic one, of the sort that Norman Mailer described in his biography of Marilyn Monroe, a sexual excitement that feeds the emotional needs of the star and that makes her feel all the more alluring, thereby upping the ante, raising the fans' tension one ontch higher, and so the game continues...
Bach, Double Concerto for Two Violins, and Brandenburg Concerto #4, and Mozart, Violin Concerto in D-Major; Ronan Lefkowitz and Robert Manero, violins, and Marilyn Chohaney and John Thow, flutists; Quincy Dining Hall...
...ambivalent and delusory self-consciousness we might expect a woman in her situation to have: the easiest exit from the drudgery and stark misery of factory and tenement is assimilation into the elite through physical beauty and seductive charm, as the heroines of mass culture from Cinderella to Marilyn Monroe have discovered. Had De Sica treated the contradictions in Clara's self-awareness with the sardonic tone whose subtle pinpricks enabled Flaubert to deflate Madame Bovary's romantic illusions. A Brief Vacation might have been a penetrating analysis of the obstacles that inhibit working women's emancipation. Because it founders...