Word: marilyns
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...born to poor parents in Depression-era Mississippi, our pop figures usually follow an arc from nowhere to somewhere, and so by talking about them we reassure ourselves about the promise and the possibilities of American life. Europe has the grandiose Age of Romanticism. We have the humbly born Marilyn, or Sinatra--or the King. Crystallize an epoch in an individual, and you offer individuals the hope of transcending their epoch...
...born to poor parents in Depression-era Mississippi, our pop figures usually follow an arc from nowhere to somewhere, and so by talking about them we reassure ourselves about the promise and the possibilities of American life. Europe has the grandiose Age of Romanticism. We have the humbly born Marilyn, or Sinatra - or the King. Crystallize an epoch in an individual, and you offer individuals the hope of transcending their epoch...
There will never be just one explanation for why Andrea Floyd, Teresa Nieves, Jennifer Wright and Marilyn Griffin are dead. Even off the battlefield, military life is stressful, but men in the military have almost exactly the same rate of spousal abuse as civilians of the same age and demographic profile, according to Richard Heyman of the State University of New York. "I do think it's odd for there to be a concentration in one locale of homicides like this," says Deborah Tucker, co-chair of a Defense Department task force on domestic violence. "But if you think about...
...there is a Penzion Andy across the street from the museum, itself on A. Warhola Street. A mineral water company has put Warhol's Red Lenin, Marilyn and Elvis on its labels. And a gallery called Endi (Andy written phonetically in Slovak) was opened by an occasional Warhol impersonator last year in a nearby village. All this probably wouldn't have pleased Warhol, who used to say he came from "nowhere." But the locals feel he is definitely from Medzilaborce...
...Galliano's platform shoes tripped up more than one model - and with Indian-like feather headdresses towering above them, the slightest twist of an ankle caused audible gasps in the audience. The clothes were packed with Galliano's notoriously wide-ranging references - from punk to pregnant Kate Moss to Marilyn Monroe (a New York city-sidewalk grate blew air up from below to recreate the Marilyn effect). Before putting pen to sketch pad, Julien Macdonald had a long conversation with Bernard Arnault, chairman of LVMH, and Yves Carcelle, the man in charge of its fashion brands. "We decided...