Word: goddess
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...light up the Statue of Liberty. But the feature that most people will probably remember is her hair, whipping seductively around her in Gilda, cascading over her shoulders on the cover of LIFE and in thousands of World War II pinup posters. If Jean Harlow was Hollywood's love goddess in the '30s and Marilyn Monroe in the '50s, the '40s ideal was Rita Hayworth, who died at 68 last week in Manhattan of complications from Alzheimer's disease...
...surprisingly, Odysseus is a bit incredulous when Athena (Leta Fincher) explains it all to him. For a goddess of wisdom, Fincher's Athena seems unduly bloodthirsty, even going so far as to chide Odysseus for his timid revulsion. She's supposed to be that way, says my friend the purist, but this Athena revels in the bloodshed so much that she would horrify Lady Macbeth...
...center of A Dream Play stands "Indra's Daughter," a sexy spiritual being sent to earth by her father, the God of the Universe, in order to experience the woes and sufferings of mankind. Valerie Steiker, who has the drop-dead looks of a Hindu goddess, plays her with the allure and comic Southern wit of a displaced Scarlett O'Hara...
What happens, of course, is little old Michael's got to dance and sing the Evil Queen and her whip-cracking tinpan entourage into an early grave. And the forces of Music and Light oblige him, transforming Huston into a doe-eyed Greek goddess. It's a happy ending, sure. But with that mayonnaise-in-her-veins look of Nirvana on her kisser, you kinda sorta miss the spitting-spider Evil Queen...
...that followed Monroe's death were written by men," Steinem writes. "So are almost all of the more than forty books that have been published about Monroe." Steinem devotes many pages to arguing with the male-written works, focusing particular attention and ire on Norman Mailer's famed bitch-goddess vision of Monroe that ignored her very human vulnerability...