Word: virginal
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...makes Brad Pitt look like a candidate for ‘The Swan,’” Rhage also possesses a vociferous appetite (and not just for blood) that stems from a beast living inside him—a curse bestowed by the Scribe Virgin...
...VIRGIN SPRING INGMAR BERGMAN He dismissedit as "a lousy imitation of Kurosawa." Yet The Virgin Spring won Bergman his first of three Foreign Film Oscars and landed him on the cover of TIME. In this adaptation of a medieval ballad, expanded and Freudianized by scripter Ulla Isaksson, a sweet, pampered girl (Birgitta Pettersson) is murdered by herdsmen, who are in turn killed by her father (Max Von Sydow). A miracle play and a horror movie--it was remade in 1972 as The Last House on the Left--the movie retains its stark grandeur in the chiaroscuro cinematography of Sven...
...piracy, but was forced to shelve them just to focus on its core operations. "The company was in such a bad spot in terms of both earnings and capital structure, frankly, we didn't have time to think of anything else," says Rose. Levy's team discovered that the Virgin label wasn't integrated into the business, so essentially two separate music companies were operating within EMI. Record sales were clearly not recovering, either. Indeed, after her Glitter album tanked, EMI had to pay Mariah Carey $28 million to extricate itself from the $80 million contract it had signed with...
...only Muslims are subjected to offense. The West dishes it out more frequently to its own Christian heritage. Remember “Piss Christ”—the art project where a crucifix was submerged in a jar of urine—or the picture of the Virgin Mary smeared with elephant dung? Americans wrote letters to their congressmen expressing outrage that these artists got National Endowment for the Arts grants or space in public museums, but no talk of beheading, no riots, not even a desecration of the artwork itself.And there are, of course, countless many blasphemies...
...Mountains didn't include any movie stars, and the most amazing mammal they saw, the 15-kg Golden-mantled Tree Kangaroo, would have a hard time wreaking havoc on Manhattan. But with claims to have discovered dozens of previously unreported species in a 10,000-sq-km expanse of virgin forest, the 11 American, Australian and Indonesian researchers may have found a biological blockbuster just the same. "Every decade there are more people, more roads, more human control over the earth," says expedition co-leader Bruce Beehler, of the environmental NGO Conservation International. "It's nice to know there...