Word: goddess
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mercy" to her people from beneath a canopy held by knights, and keeping a sprig of rosemary thrown into her chariot, was a superb performer in the stagecraft of statecraft. She was also, according to Biographer Jenkins, a beautiful woman with golden-brown eyes of great brilliance. "Goddess, excellently bright," one ballad called...
...season's most provocative plan for a Broadway musical came from an unlikely impresario: Poet-Novelist-Historian Robert (The White Goddess) Graves. The subject, announced by Graves during an Israeli lecture tour: Solomon and Sheba. Plans call for only a dozen beauties to represent Solomon's 700 wives and 300 concubines. As for casting, Graves hopes to get Lena Horne for Sheba "because she is black but comely, as the Song of Songs says." For the score, he plans to approach Leonard Bernstein. Solomon and Sheba, says Graves, will be "different from the film on the same subject...
Goldfish & Warriors. Other men often made better movies, but no one else ever catered with such monumental efficiency to the fickle, well-fed goddess that Hollywood describes as public taste. For years, DeMille was Hollywood: he founded one of its first studios in a barn. When he went west from New York in 1913, head of a syndicate that included a struggling vaudeville producer named Jesse Lasky and a glove salesman named Sam Goldfish (later Goldwyn), it was enough that he had the drive and energy to put together The Squaw Man, Hollywood's first full-length flicker, with...
...cult: "spiritism." Altars were set up everywhere in the sand, heaped with fetishes and food offerings, bottles of beer and the rotgut alcohol known as cachaça. Around the altars, while drums pounded faster and faster, men, women and children danced and shouted, stomped and babbled. Yemanjá, goddess of the sea, was the special object of honor; poor families from Rio's slums and evening-clad nightclub patrons waded into the water to toss in offerings-liquor, perfume, jewelry, and thousands of bouquets of white chrysanthemums...
Oxala & Ogun. The upsurge of spiritism in Roman Catholic (95%) Brazil is a phenomenon of the past decade, but its roots go deep. Slaves brought their gods from Africa, and many of them changed in their new country: among the Nagôs, Yemanjá was a river goddess who became a sea goddess on the journey across the water; Calunga, the Bantu sea god, became the god of death during the slave ship trip to Brazil. The spirit deities also merged with Catholic theology: Oxala is both the Lord of Creation and Christ, Yemanjá is also Our Lady...