Word: goddess
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week, as Nakian approached his 70th birthday, his glowing and explicit Goddess of the Golden Thighs was adding a touch of lust to the Los Angeles County Museum's mammoth "American Sculpture of the Sixties" exhibit. The work, he says, is meant to symbolize "the birth of the universe; like coming out of woman, all life comes out of the female." Also last week, the Art Institute of Chicago opened a 27-sculptor summer exhibit called "A Generation of Innovation." Curator A. James Speyer noted that "works of virtue by many noted sculptors are not included be cause...
...checked polo coat and matching shorts, or with a pony-skin raincoat. If she would rather be Tom Sawyer, Chester Weinberg has just the thing: avocado green velvet overalls that come to midcalf, and are topped by a lace-trimmed blouse. With George Stavropoulos, she can play the Greek goddess in classical floor-length gowns trailing yards of filmy chiffon...
...Happening. "Is it real, is it fake?" yammer the Supremes over the picture's titles. "Is this game of life a mistake?" Indeed it is, at least in this film. Three fun-burned Miami boys and a girl in search of the beach goddess, Kicks, decide to kidnap a wealthy racketeer (Anthony Quinn). As it happens, Quinn is unredeemable. Desperate phone calls reveal that his wife and partner are cuckolding him ("For $200,000 you can keep the son of a bitch," she snarls). His Mafia associates refuse to extend their black hand; even his mother would rather help...
Inspired by this proclamation, the 42 delegates issued a statement of policy, asserting that "the 28 Evangelical dioceses in the Federal Republic and the German Democratic Republic stand together in the spirit of united Christians." To renounce unity because of political differences "would have the church serve the goddess of the state." The manifesto concluded: "We therefore have no reason to sever our bonds with the community of the Evangelical Church in Germany. The Lord who forgives us our trespasses will give us the strength to serve him in ever greater freedom...
...there must be excesses, let them be of talent. The young director, Francis Ford Coppola, generally exploits his medium well. For example, the hero is with plain-Jane but his mind is on bitch-goddess. How do you know? Because her name suddenly appears on the electrotape news around the Times Building and her go-go body lights up a neon sign...