Word: virgin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...show budding writing talent. Edmund, meanwhile, apart from suffering consumption, blames his very existence on his mother's drug addiction. To escape from their troubles, the men spend late hours drowning themselves in alcohol, while Mary glides about smothered in morphine, dreamily praying to the Blessed Virgin as she did as a schoolgirl...
Then the sociologists will happen upon Angel, New World Pictures' latest unsuccessful attempt at integrating cheap comedy with undressed girls and lots of blood. And they'll think, "Ah hah. Right again." But you see, the sociologists will have a problem. Because unlike The Last American Virgin and Private Lessons, where the protagonists spend their adolescence contemplating how to get laid, Angelis not the degenerate we wish she was. In fact, she is just the opposite: a high school honor student who can only survive by prostituting herself to fat, filthy perverts...
...raining in Paris, a cold, sideways rain. The Louisianans had their new, flat, virgin passports stamped and got on their buses, which spread them around among four hotels. They were tired now. There was no whooping, no hollering. They had talked of tearing the town apart, but in the end they were as docile as garden slugs. The only recorded incident of aberrant behavior occurred at the Hotel George V, where, according to Manager Paulo De Pol, a man tossed his cowboy hat into the air, demanded a car and driver, and expressed the intention of hitting every...
...Lotto's The Annunciation on its own is a joy. It is one of the strangest lyrical effusions of the High Renaissance, a painting that almost (but not quite) ruptures its own decorum in the interests of poetry: the Virgin, momentarily out of her wits, cringes before the prospect of divine insemination, while God makes ready to descend from the sky like a high diver; the ethereal angel, pale blue and ivory, gestures threateningly; a tabby cat arches its back in terror, as well it might...
Culture Club: Colour by Numbers (Virgin). Lead Singer Boy George may look like Peter Pan at a transvestite Mardi Gras, but this band purveys a straight and joyous brand...