Word: goddess
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...take a personal part in opening the rice-planting season. Come fall, the monarch will return to the same paddy in the imperial palace compound and harvest a crop of about 300 lbs., part of it destined for the Ise Grand Shrines as an offering to the sun goddess Amaterasu...
...Pacino's haunted, hysterical male wife in Dog Day Afternoon) composes modern music. He comes to Chris's apartment with a cassette of his screeching electronic creations under his arm, moog pieces which he plays for her with the tentative devotion of a supplicant offering a sacrifice to a goddess. She's bored, her attention wanders, she takes a phone call. Tantalized by her public image and enraged by her indifference, Stuart rapes her. His ego is composed of his music and his genitals--just as he is about to sodomize her he switches on the cassette to full volume...
...pantheon of Hindu gods, Saraswati is the goddess of pen, ink and books. She must have given the young Godden sisters a double blessing. Half a century later, the ex-colonials are still writing with fecundity and style-often about their childhood in India. Jon, 70, has just produced her tenth novel; Rumer, 69, her 15th. Rumer has also written poetry, stories and children's books. In addition, the Goddens have collaborated on two volumes: Shiva's Pigeons (1972) and the highly acclaimed Two Under the Indian Sun (1966), a memoir of the years spent among the textures...
...woman coos in a muted voice, as if she were speaking through bed sheets. A man wails deep; his anguish, supposedly lashed to a sexual moment, is only the synthetic spawn of the recording studio--artificial, abstract. A chorus of women chant undecipherable orisons to some street-wise goddess of love. Their voices are synchronized to a single, thin line; you can't tell if there are three, ten, or thirty women singing...
Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's tenth anniversary in office was marked late last month with celebrations throughout the country. At one mass rally in Bombay, the president of India's ruling Congress Party compared her to the Hindu goddess of strength. The comparison was apt. On the last day of January she expunged one of the two remaining pockets of opposition by dissolving the state assembly and dismissing the government of Tamil Nadu-the populous (45 million) former state of Madras. In its place she imposed direct rule from New Delhi. Twenty planeloads of police landed in Madras...