Citations:Marilyn Monroe

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English citations of Marilyn Monroe

  • 1956 Theatre Arts - Volume 40, Issue 3 - Page 32
    e take the Marilyn Monroes and the Ava Gardners in our stride.
  • 1959 Magazine of Sigma Chi - Volume 78, Issue 3 - Page 16
    "We have Brigitte Bardots and Marilyn Monroes in place of Lilly Langtry."
  • 1997 September 14, Cindy Pearlman, “Working mother; ; Basinger gives whole new meaning to ^babelicious^”, in Chicago Sun-Times, page 3:
    With me they said,' Oh, she's got a little bit of that Marilyn Monroe quality.' I've learned when they attach' sex symbol' to your name, suddenly your credibility as an actress is in the toilet."
  • 2002 July, Benjamin Rosenbaum, “Droplet”, in Fantasy & Science Fiction, volume 103, number 1, page 35:
    Despite the cushiony-pink Marilyn Monroe skin, Shar is harder than I am. My heart races when I look at her, just as it did a hundred thousand years ago.
  • 2003 September, “Madonna now”, in Bazaar, number 3502, page 303:
    She introduced the world to the underground East Village punk style, took lingerie out of the bedroom and into the street, toyed with the Marilyn Monroe image of bombshell glamour
  • 2005, Bob Ryan, The Best of Sport: Classic Writing from the Golden Era of Sports, page 51.
    We are a people who pine to be Marilyn Monroes and Joe DiMaggios.
  • 2008 April 5, Davide Castelvecchi, “QUANTUM COCOON”, in Science News, volume 173, number 14, page 216:
    There's no such thing as a 100 percent-pure crystal, though, and diamond's impurities are in fact Marilyn Monroe beauty marks that make it attractive for physics.