Like the Easter Island statues, there is plenty of speculation over how this was done by a society without machines or metal, but the generally accepted view is that the head and base were etched out of the ground by sharp adzes and picks ( possibly with the use of fire ), and carried to the assembly area by an elaborate system of ropes and logs.

Like other successful athletes of ancient Greece, Milo was the subject of fantastic tales of strength and power, some, perhaps, based upon misinterpretations of his statues.

Like the hairstyles, the clothing depicted also follows the general fashions of the Roman Empire, as known from statues and busts.

Like many other Buddha statues in Thailand, the Emerald Buddha is dressed in a seasonal costume.

Like his famous compatriot Petrarca, Squarcione was something of a fanatic for ancient Rome: he travelled in Italy, and perhaps Greece, amassing antique statues, reliefs, vases, etc., forming a collection of such works, then making drawings from them himself, and throwing open his stores for others to study.

Like his famous compatriot Petrarca, Squarcione was something of a fanatic for ancient Rome: he travelled in Italy, and perhaps Greece, collecting antique statues, reliefs, vases, and other works of art, forming a collection of such works, making drawings from them himself, and throwing open his stores for others to study from.

According to the book Attila and the Nomad Hordes, " Like the Kimaks they set up many carved wooden funerary statues surrounded by simple stone balbal monoliths.

Like an American millionaire of the Gilded Age, he bought whole collections in Rome and Venice ; in Venice, after tiresome drawn-out negotiations with the aged Andrea Loredan, he purchased the Loredan collection virtually in its entirety: 120 bronzes, 2480 medals and coins, 91 marble heads, 43 marble statues, 33 reliefs and 14 various curiosities, for the sum of 7000 ducats ; " they were all exported from Venice secretly at night in large chests ".

Girls also wore Jelly Shoes, large crucifix neclaces, and braissers all inspired by Madonna's " Like a Virgin " video.

The controversy surrounding her marketing of sexuality began with the video for " Lucky Star ", and amplified over time due to clips such as " Like a Virgin ".

Taking Madonna singing " Like a Virgin " and rerecording it backwards or slower is plunderphonics, as long as you can reasonably recognize the source.

Much attention is garnered by Madonna's controversial performance of her hit single " Like a Virgin " in which she rolls around on the stage, revealing lacy stockings and garters, and grinds her crotch against her veil.

Among other works of art and literature to which Paglia applies her analysis of the Western canon are: the Venus of Willendorf, the Bust of Nefertiti, Ancient Greek sculpture, Donatello's David, Sandro Botticelli's Birth of Venus and Primavera, Leonardo Da Vinci's Mona Lisa and The Virgin and Child with St. Anne, Michelangelo, Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene, William Shakespeare's As You Like It and Antony and Cleopatra, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Marquis de Sade, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Lord Byron's Don Juan, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats, Honoré de Balzac, Théophile Gautier, Charles Baudelaire, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman, Henry James, The Pre-Raphaelites, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Walter Pater, Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest and The Picture of Dorian Gray, and Emily Dickinson.

The movie is at least partly the inspiration for the song " Alice and Interiors " by the band Manchester Orchestra from their album I'm Like a Virgin Losing a Child.

Her debut solo album A Girl Like Me was released in the United Kingdom on 16 April 2001 by Virgin Records.

Her debut solo album A Girl Like Me, released in the United Kingdom on 16 April 2001 by Virgin Records.

They released several albums on IRS Records, including the keyboard-laden hit single " Open Your Eyes " and a cover of " Like A Virgin ".

Thompson appeared with numerous artists such as Jody Watley, Madonna ( on her 1984 album Like A Virgin ), Rod Stewart, Robert Palmer, Adam Ant ( on his unreleased Persuasion album ), Mick Jagger, and David Bowie ( on his 1983 Let's Dance album and subsequent Serious Moonlight tour ).

1984: At the first MTV Video Music Awards in 1984, Madonna performed her iconic hit " Like A Virgin " wearing a combination bustier / wedding gown, including her trademark " Boy Toy " belt.

The three singers performed a medley of her early hit, " Like a Virgin ", and her then latest release, " Hollywood ", with a guest rap by Missy Elliott.

The design resembled Madonna's performance of " Like a Virgin " at the 1984 VMAs: the same wedding cake set, wedding dresses and " Boy Toy " belt worn by Madonna in 1984 now adorned Aguilera and Spears.

The second segment was passionate and religious-themed, beginning with a Middle-Eastern version of " Like a Virgin " sung on a red silk bed.

# " Like a Virgin "

** Like a Virgin 12 " ( 1985 )

# Venus / Like A Virgin / Girls Just Want To Have Fun / Venus ( Reprise )

The song was sent to Madonna by Michael Ostin, the same Warner Bros. executive that discovered " Like a Virgin ".

Davitt Sigerson from Rolling Stone magazine in a review of the album True Blue said that if there is a problem with the album " it's the lack of outstanding songs ", adding that " only the magnificent ' Papa Don't Preach ' has the high-profile hook to match ' Like a Virgin ', ' Dress You Up ' and ' Material Girl '.

Friends Like Us: The Unofficial Guide to Friends, 2nd ed., London: Virgin Publishing.

The King, their next album, received critical reviews ; it consisted of a number of self-confessedly shambolic guitar thrashes and a cover of Madonna's " Like a Virgin ".

* 1984: " All I Need " # 2 US ( 2 weeks ) behind Madonna's ' Like A Virgin ' - January 12, 1985 (# 1 AC-2 weeks )

Season 3 Episode 18, Like a Virgin, makes reference to a team of card counters that acts in a similar fashion to the MIT BlackJack Team

Examples are " Like a Virgin ", " Goodbye Yellow Brick Road ", " What is Love ", and " Station to Station.

Like aluminium and magnesium metal surfaces, titanium metal and alloy surfaces oxidize immediately when they are exposed to air.

Like Whistler, Monet and Pissarro both focused their efforts on views of the city, and it is likely that Whistler was exposed to the evolution of Impressionism founded by these artists and that they had seen his nocturnes.

Like a sensitized Daguerreotype plate, but unlike Talbot's earlier " sensitive paper ", better known as " salted paper ", the calotype paper had to be exposed in the camera only long enough to produce a very faint or completely invisible image which was then chemically developed to full visibility.

Like a writer, a photojournalist is a reporter but he or she must often make decisions instantly and carry photographic equipment, often while exposed to significant obstacles ( i. e., physical danger, weather, crowds ).

Like most Taiwanese aborigines, she was exposed to tribal music during her childhood.

The American Dialect Society had a number of related terms for Word of the year nominations in 2004, including Janet moment ( unplanned bodily exposure at a public function ), boobgate ( scandal over Janet Jackson's exposed breast ), nipplegate ( Like boobgate, but used earlier in squawk over Jackson's possible nipple ring ) and wardrobe malfunction ( overexposure in a mammary way ).

Like on other places there are controversial discusses about the exposed location.

Like the rest of his family, Bors joins Lancelot in exile after his affair with Guinevere is exposed, and helps rescue the Queen from her execution at the stake.

Like the printer Robert Estienne Plantin exposed galley proofs of his works in front of his establishment and promised a reward to anyone who could find faults.

Like many others, Bismarck noticed that the nature of the relationship between Wilhelm II and Eulenburg could " not be confided to paper ," but he, as those many others, felt that even these activities in the private sphere were not to be exposed to the public.

Like most other forms of wrestling it seems that tegumi evolved from a primitive form of grappling self-defense, which was constantly being adapted and enhanced as it was exposed to outside influences.

Like its main rival broadcast on the Seven Network, Today Tonight, A Current Affair is often considered by media critics and the public at large to use sensationalist journalism – as depicted in the parody television show Frontline – and to deliberately present advertising as editorial content, as previously exposed on the ABC program Media Watch.

Like their Kryptonian cousins, Daxamites manifest powers and abilities similar to those of Superman when exposed to the light of a yellow star, including vast strength, damage resistance, great speed, flight, enhanced senses and heat and X-ray vision.

Like his father and the rest of his family, Elyan helps his cousin Lancelot rescue Guinevere after their affair is exposed, and joins him in exile.