Word: venusized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...harder to find it--even if it means biting his tongue 10 times before giving an opinion. Hillary is a very good listener, but she has the tendency to jump in with an answer too soon." --DR. JOHN GRAY, author, Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus...
...This is where the desert sequences for The Road Warrior were filmed. Imagine standing in the predawn darkness on the rim of a cliff, 300 ft. above the desert floor. There are purply black mesas before and behind you. Exactly above the center of the largest one, you see Venus, the Morning Star, burning in a deep violet sky. Nothing moves. No wind, no sound, only bitter cold. As the light begins to glow on the eastern horizon, you see an immense desert plain, flat as water--it is, in fact, the bed of an ancient inland...
...ever particularly identify with Marilyn. They may love her or fear for her, but mostly they simply marvel at her existence, at the delicious unlikeliness of such platinum innocence. She's the bad girl and good girl combined: she's sharp and sexy yet incapable of meanness, a dewy Venus rising from the motel sheets, a hopelessly irresistible home wrecker. Monroe longed to be taken seriously as an artist, but her work in more turgid vehicles, like The Misfits, was neither original nor very interesting. She needs the tickle of cashmere to enchant for the ages...
Nisenson also pointed out that two of the discovered planets were within "the habitable zone," the distance from a star that corresponds to planets with temperatures roughly similar to those of Venus, Earth and Mars...
...band entirely impossible to pigeonhole. Though they are reputed to be an incredibly quirky but talented pop band, their songs sound like they have emerged from an entirely different era. This is proven no better than on XTC's first new studio album in seven years, the excellent Apple Venus, Volume 1. The easiest comparison that can be made on this record is to The Beatles, at whose Abbey Road Studios part of this album was recorded. The smattering of horns and strings on "River of Orchids," the jaunty marching-band parade style on "Frivolous Tonight" and the gorgeously acoustic...