Word: goddess
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...signal I need. When bulls like you run scared, I want to load the boat up. Everybody will be real negative by the end of the day, setting us up for a terrific snapback rally." Moment of hope. "When?" I said, hoping that my wife, known as the Trading Goddess (for her prescient days as a head trader), would give me a buy signal. "Now? Soon? What time?" The Trading Goddess spoke softly. "I will let you know. But it will come today...
...Sure enough, right at detonation, the Trading Goddess rings and whispers those three little words: "Don't blow it." She was alluding to 10 years ago, when I failed to buy in the last decade's most famous October buying opportunity. My toughest critic/guardian angel unflinchingly said, "Stand there with a bushel basket as stocks come in." What stocks? I wanted names. Too late. She was engrossed in a dot-to-dot with our three-year- old. "I'll leave something to you," she said, and the crystal ball went dark. I would only have a few minutes...
...expect no less of Bonham Carter, who has been a source of posh insolence since her 1985 screen debut as the teen-age Queen of England in Lady Jane. She is our modern antique goddess--a balky Ophelia, for instance, to Mel Gibson's Hamlet. But it is in the early 20th century that her sweet imperiousness has been put to smartest use; she has made no fewer than four films based on E.M. Forster novels (A Room with a View, Maurice, Where Angels Fear to Tread and Howards End). She finds the age attractive--"Women tend...
...holiday is a celebration of the anniversary of the gods Lord Rama and the Goddess Sita's return home from India's southern tip after battling a demon, Kacholia said...
...Elaine Lewinnek's all-girl sixth-grade social-studies class, the Venus of Willendorf's bulging stomach and hips were a hot topic. A picture of the fertility goddess from 25,000 B.C. stimulated a lively discussion about how ideals of feminine beauty have changed through the centuries. Then a boy came into the classroom to collect attendance slips. "Stop! Stop! There's a boy in the room!" several girls shouted. The conversation halted until he left...