Word: marilyns
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...auction for nearly $25,000. Grace Kelly requested that it be served at her wedding to Prince Rainier, Elizabeth Taylor celebrated her 1961 Oscar win over a bottle of it, and Aristotle Onassis was known to keep a chilled bottle at the ready at Maxim's restaurant in Paris. Marilyn Monroe, a devout fan of Dom Pérignon '53, sipped it throughout fittings for the dress she wore to John F. Kennedy's birthday celebration in 1962 and stocked a whole car full for a road trip with Danish paramour Hans Jorgen Lembourn. On the silver screen, its status turned...
Fifty-five years ago, sex went mainstream. Since debuting in December 1953 with a snapshot of Marilyn Monroe gracing its cover, Hugh Hefner's Playboy helped thaw America's once-frigid attitude toward human sexuality. Playboy remains the genre's big kahuna, and its stew of titillating photo spreads, risqué party jokes and, yes, interesting articles was the original recipe for success in the pornographic magazine business. But the strange, seamy history of smut on paper neither began nor ended with Hef's brainchild...
...kindness, a sense of nostalgia and good humor that the artist brings to his work that precludes strong criticism or hostility in favor of eccentric homage.Taking imagery into consideration, Conner is obsessed with the female form. The sixteen-minute pseudo-loop piece, 1973’s “Marilyn Times Five,” dwells, as if under hypnosis, on the increasingly nude form of nubile Monroe-doppelganger Arline Hunter. The same images, placed further ahead in time each cycle, play over “I’m Through With Love,” a song from Monroe?...
Musgrave, Marilyn •defeat of goes unacknowledged - if acknowledging it means having the simple courtesy to call her opponent and concede...
...Horsemen,” however, is a process of untangling all unto itself. It’s almost impossible to answer the question of what’s going on in the hundred poems offered in this collection, translated into English by National Book Award-winning poet Marilyn Hacker. Themes and characters exit as quickly as they’re introduced, poetry transforms into prose, and reality becomes theater. But once Étienne’s words are untangled, a thoughtful attempt to embrace all of human experience is revealed.Despite the deliberate structure of 10 groups...