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Greta Garbo
Greta Garbo 1905-90, American film actress, b. Stockholm, Sweden, as Greta Gustafsson. Garbo's success in the Swedish film The Atonement of Gösta Berling (1923) brought her to Hollywood. Possessing classic beauty and a husky, alluring voice, she was known in her early films for her... Read more |
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fasting
fasting partial or temporary abstinence from food, a widely used form of asceticism . Among the stricter Jews the principal fast is the Day of Atonement, or Yom Kippur ; in Islam the faithful fast all the daytime hours of the month of Ramadan . Fasting is general in Christianity. The most widely... Read more |
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John Davies
Davies, John (1946– ). British sculptor, born in Cheshire. He studied painting at Hull and Manchester Colleges of Art, 1963–7, then sculpture at the Slade School, 1967–9. His work typically consists of clothed male figures, the heads cast from the life in plaster; they wear real... Read more |
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Maithuna
Maithuna Sanskrit term for sexual intercourse, one practice espoused in tantric yoga. Tantra differs from more ascetic forms of Hinduism in eschewing the way of denial. Instead of refraining from such things as alcohol and sex in order to attain spiritual realization, tantra suggests using items... Read more |
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