Word: maya
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stunning, even shocking anecdotes and a lot of trivia, some of it boring and some of it mildly interesting. The shocking anecdotes are sometimes a little difficult to take without a grain of salt, but most of them are all the more shocking because they're believable. Maya Angelou, the writer and poet, was raped by her mother's boyfriend at the age of seven, an experience which obviously left something of a scar. Liberace says he "thinks he was raped" at the age of 13 by "a big chesty broad who sang blues songs," and Lou Rawls was practically...
...first time and the last time"--she repeats it, her voice rising: "Karl, we were never in the sex business." But even if you concede that point, the question remains: why did these two bright, talented, wholesome people travel around the country asking 28 different celebrities--ranging from Maya Angelou and Erica Jong to Dr. Spock and Mae West--how they lost their virginity...
...wears a magnificent fur coat and chants mantras about "revolution" in order to expunge his sorrow for having flown a German airplane 30 years ago. Burden, on the other hand, would appear a familiar figure to us. He is a body artist. He believes in transcending the entanglements of maya by mortifying his flesh. And though, thanks to drought and earthquakes, this has become routine for most of us at home, in America it is considered to be a great luxury and artists who practice it are esteemed on all sides-so much so that photographs of them sell...
Vogt accepted the baton, nothing that the Maya Indians also own batons which, they believe, possess an inner soul placed there by the gods to foster leadership...
...none of this really matters. From the first moment that marvelous Maya, sexily garbed in black, sashays onto a stage tricked up to evoke a bull ring, she is smolderingly present as a dangerous woman on the make. Whether stalking defiantly away from a woebegone Don José or melting luxuriously in his arms, this Carmen is a creature, almost a prisoner, of passion. All stops out, Plisetskaya swaggers through the role with a shameless, feline verve that commands the eye and utterly dominates the stage...