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Marilyn Monroe
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  • I couldn't get it up over old frozen face in there even if she had the beauty of Marilyn Monroe.†   (source)
  • Marilyn Monroe's death was followed by a temporary 12 percent increase in the national suicide rate.†   (source)
  • Ashley went as Cleopatra, Sumner as a mad scientist, and Laurel Adams as Marilyn Monroe in a peroxide wig and a dress that I could tell my mother thought was entirely too tight.†   (source)
  • The young girl who will become Marilyn Monroe, sweating away in a defense plant.†   (source)
  • I said, "Where would Marilyn Monroe have been if Mrs. Monroe had said, 'No, Marilyn, you'll ruin your hair'?"†   (source)
  • But hadn't Marilyn Monroe been a size fourteen?†   (source)
  • Marilyn Monroe.†   (source)
  • Indeed, she speaks with the same breathy, almost childlike voice of actress Marilyn Monroe.†   (source)
  • Her lipstick was bright red and her dress didn't leave much to the imagination, as if she were trying to look like Marilyn Monroe on the recent cover of Life magazine, beauty mark and all, one she didn't have when she was making pancakes for the kids at Janet.†   (source)
  • And of course, it didn't help any when Benjamin threw in his two cents, saying that I looked like Marilyn Monroe (I mean, how does he even know who Marilyn Monroe is, or was?†   (source)
  • Lots of people draw on their faces, Marilyn Monroe did, for example.†   (source)
  • "Did you hear about Marilyn Monroe?" the ski bum asked us.†   (source)
  • OH, YOU MEAN TRUDEAU DIDDLED MARILYN MONROE?†   (source)
  • "My mother told me that JFK was diddling Marilyn Monroe—and countless others," he added.†   (source)
  • "And my dad knows Marilyn Monroe," he said.†   (source)
  • If Marilyn Monroe wanted to sleep with you, would you let her?†   (source)
  • How did Marilyn Monroe get involved in this?†   (source)
  • Maybe they talked about Marilyn Monroe and the Kennedys.†   (source)
  • —could have been "diddling" Marilyn Monroe; not to mention "countless others."†   (source)
  • "Did you hear about Marilyn Monroe?" he asked us again.†   (source)
  • "IF BOBBY WAS NEXT IN LINE FOR MARILYN MONROE, WHAT ELSE IS HE NEXT IN LINE FOR?" said Owen Meany.†   (source)
  • I DON'T EVEN KNOW MARILYN MONROE, OF COURSE," he said.†   (source)
  • You remember the Marilyn Monroe calendar you saw in my studio.†   (source)
  • Yet despite her passion and beauty, Marilyn Monroe is damaged goods.†   (source)
  • Picture in your mind the face of Marilyn Monroe.†   (source)
  • Now Marilyn Monroe wears a loose robe as the party swirls at the Crosby estate.†   (source)
  • The facts are that Marilyn Monroe phoned Bobby several times throughout the summer of 1962.†   (source)
  • "Marilyn Monroe is a soldier," she later tells her therapist, speaking in the third person.†   (source)
  • Marilyn Monroe is already by the president's side.†   (source)
  • Marilyn Monroe lies naked facedown on her bed.†   (source)
  • But when I looked at Anatole's wrinkled brown knuckles and pinkish palms, I pictured hands like those digging diamonds out of the Congo dirt and got to thinking, Gee, does Marilyn Monroe even know where they come from?†   (source)
  • Even more startling is the case of five-year-old Patti Weaver who has made convincing claims to Dr. Chatterjee that in her previous-life experience she was the secret KGB assassin responsible for the unsolved murders of famed personalities Howard Hughes, Marilyn Monroe and Elvis Presley.†   (source)
  • Butterbatch or Marilyn Monroe?†   (source)
  • He showed them some rooms where a lady named Marilyn Monroe once stayed when she was married to a man named Arthur Miller (Danny got a vague understanding that Marilyn and Arthur had gotten a DIVORCE not long after they were in the Overlook Hotel).†   (source)
  • DOES JACKIE KNOW ABOUT MARILYN MONROE?†   (source)
  • But we had certainly heard of President John E Kennedy; and we had certainly seen every movie that starred Marilyn Monroe.†   (source)
  • Now something concrete made me feel afraid—but my fear itself was still vague: what could Marilyn Monroe's death ever have to do with me?†   (source)
  • "Marilyn Monroe?" the headmaster said.†   (source)
  • "SHE ASKED ME IF I'D 'DO IT' WITH MARILYN MONROE," Owen explained, "AND I SAID, 'NOT IF I WERE MARRIED,' AND SHE STARTED LAUGHING AT ME."†   (source)
  • Or don't you like Marilyn Monroe?"†   (source)
  • MARILYN MONROE WAS ALWAYS LOOKING FOR THE BEST MAN—MAYBE SHE WANTED THE MAN WITH THE MOST INTEGRITY, MAYBE SHE WANTED THE MAN WITH THE MOST ABILITY TO DO GOOD.†   (source)
  • In the summer of '62, he was only twenty; but from the moment he was told that Jack Kennedy was "diddling" Marilyn Monroe, he stopped doing anything for pleasure.†   (source)
  • We were hanging around the editorial offices of The Grave—that year The Voice was also editor-in-chief—when a totally unlikable senior named Larry Lish told Owen and me that President Kennedy was "diddling" Marilyn Monroe.†   (source)
  • Today, the fact that President Kennedy enjoyed carnal knowledge of Marilyn Monroe and "countless others"—even during his presidency—seems only moderately improper, and even stylish, in comparison to the willful secrecy and deception, and the unlawful policies, so broadly practiced by the entire Reagan administration.†   (source)
  • If I were to show you a picture of Marilyn Monroe or Albert Einstein, you'd recognize both faces in a fraction of a second.†   (source)
  • A good summary of that paper — and the statistic about Marilyn Monroe — can be found at the beginning of his paper on traffic accidents, David P. Phillips, "Suicide, Motor Vehicle Fatalities, and the Man Media: Evidence toward a Theory of Suggestion," American Journal of Sociology (1979), vol. 84, no. 5, pp. 115 o-1174.†   (source)
  • There was a Marilyn Monroe calendar on the wall, the famous early pinup called Miss Golden Dreams, a high-angle shot of the nude body posed on a velveteen blood-red bedsheet.†   (source)
  • If you wrote a paragraph on Marilyn Monroe's face, without telling me whom you were writing about, could I guess who it was?†   (source)
  • If I were to show you a picture of Marilyn Monroe or Albert Einstein, you'd recognize both faces in a fraction of a second.†   (source)
  • If you wrote a paragraph on Marilyn Monroe's face, without telling me whom you were writing about, could I guess who it was?†   (source)
  • Marilyn Monroe has become so obsessed with JFK that she calls the White House constantly, but her singing performance falls on deaf ears.†   (source)
  • However, their plans went awry when Bobby was tipped off by anonymous sources that Marilyn Monroe had unexpectedly died.†   (source)
  • So giddy, in fact, that it doesn't even bother him that the president will be rendezvousing with Sinatra's former girlfriend, Marilyn Monroe.†   (source)
  • JFK has cultivated a relationship with her for almost two years and is quite certain that tonight Marilyn Monroe is finally his for the taking.†   (source)
  • Among them was that Marilyn Monroe had had an affair with Bobby Kennedy as well as JFK, and that Bobby was complicit in Monroe's death.†   (source)
  • The damage would go far beyond the innuendos Marilyn Monroe spread around Hollywood before her untimely death.†   (source)
  • Any involvement by Bobby Kennedy in Marilyn Monroe's death, whether it was suicide or murder, makes it a conspiracy theory without substance to this day.†   (source)
  • After spending much of her youth in foster homes, she began modeling in her teens and landed a movie contract in 1946, changing her name to Marilyn Monroe.†   (source)
  • Two months after their weekend in Palm Springs, Marilyn Monroe stands before a dazzled crowd in New York's Madison Square Garden, singing the traditional birthday song in the most salacious manner possible.†   (source)
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