Courtney Love - Early life. The daughter of Grateful Dead manager and publisher Hank Harrison and therapist Linda Carroll (nee Risi), Love spent her childhood with her mother as she wandered through five husbands and as many hippie communes in Oregon and at boarding school in Nelson New Zealand. Love later claimed to have been given LSD as a toddler. Her father denies this and has passed polygraph tests. A troubled, angry child, Love was a veteran of reform schools and juvenile halls by the time she was a ...

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Courtney Love, Courtney Love - Biography, Courtney Love - Early life, Courtney Love - Musical career and marriage, Courtney Love - Life after Cobain, Courtney Love - Controversy, Courtney Love - Manga, Courtney Love - Discography, Courtney Love - Filmography

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The relative emphasis of each component changes over time as an adult romantic relationship develops. Liking includes only one of the love components - intimacy. In this case, liking is not used in a trivial sense. Sternberg says that this intimate liking characterizes true friendships, in which a person feels a bondedness, a warmth, and a closeness with another but not intense passion or long-term commitment. Infatuated love consists solely of passion and is often what is felt as "love at first sight." Bu ...

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Triangular theory of love, Triangular theory of love - Forms of romantic love, Triangular theory of love - Companionate love, Triangular theory of love - Consummate love, Triangular theory of love - Reference

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Since Cobain's death, conspiracies have circulated that he was in fact murdered at Love's instigation. Love has been a strong critic of the music industry, especially the RIAA. In 2000, she publicly announced her admiration for Napster which, at the time, was being accused of fostering illegal file-sharing. She became known for her criticism of unfair record contracts and mistreatment of artists. With Hole having fallen into disarray, Love attempted to begin a "punk rock femme supergroup" called Bastard during summer/autumn of ...

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Courtney Love, Courtney Love - Biography, Courtney Love - Early life, Courtney Love - Musical career and marriage, Courtney Love - Life after Cobain, Courtney Love - Controversy, Courtney Love - Manga, Courtney Love - Discography, Courtney Love - Filmography

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When Love lived in Japan, she became a fan of manga. She co-created a series called Princess Ai ('Ai' meaning 'Love'). Princess Ai features the character design of Ai Yazawa. Dialogue for Princess Ai's main character, Ai, is taken from Love's song lyrics. 'Princess Ai: Volume I was released by TOKYOPOP in the United States on July 6, 2004. ...

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Courtney Love, Courtney Love - Biography, Courtney Love - Early life, Courtney Love - Musical career and marriage, Courtney Love - Life after Cobain, Courtney Love - Controversy, Courtney Love - Manga, Courtney Love - Discography, Courtney Love - Filmography

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The album is named after a 1993 study of black minstrelsy by Virginia social historian Eric Lott, Love and Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class. However, Love and Theft is only tangentially about popular exploitation of black culture. Not surprisingly the album's jaunty style was reminiscent of the live shows leading up to Love and Theft, in which Dylan covered numerous songs pre-dating rock 'n' roll and re-arranged his older material with country and blu ...

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Love and Theft, Love and Theft - The recording sessions, Love and Theft - The songs, Love and Theft - Aftermath, Love and Theft - Track listing, Love and Theft - Trivia, Love and Theft - Personnel

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A number of songs recorded for Shot of Love were ultimately omitted from the final album, but several outtakes later found their way into private circulation. One song in particular was originally intended for Shot of Love, only to be dropped, then later re-instated. That song, "The Groom's Still Waiting At The Altar," was officially released as a B-side before it was added on to the CD issue of Shot of Love. In 1991, Columbia released several more outtakes on The Bootleg Series Volumes 1-3 (Rare & Unreleas ...

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Shot of Love, Shot of Love - The Recording Sessions, Shot of Love - The Songs, Shot of Love - Outtakes, Shot of Love - Aftermath, Shot of Love - Track Listing, Shot of Love - Personnel

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Unlike Dylan's two previous studio albums (Slow Train Coming and Saved), Shot of Love, included secular material as well as overtly religious and evangelistic songs. The opening title track of Shot of Love fits somewhere in between, making a few Christian references while railing against substance abuse as a way of fulfilling or escaping life. ("Don't need a shot of heroin to kill my disease/Don't need a shot of turpentine, only bring me to my knees/Don't need a shot of codeine to help me to repent/Don't ne ...

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Shot of Love, Shot of Love - The Recording Sessions, Shot of Love - The Songs, Shot of Love - Outtakes, Shot of Love - Aftermath, Shot of Love - Track Listing, Shot of Love - Personnel

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A number of critics had already turned on Dylan for the evangelism of his last two albums, but the reception for Shot of Love was particularly harsh. Despite lavish praise of "Every Grain Of Sand," Paul Nelson of Rolling Stone savaged rest of the album. Nick Kent of New Musical Express called it "Dylan's worst album to date." Despite heavy touring in Europe and North America (in which all but two songs were performed), sales of Shot of Love were below CBS's expectations. Still, in an interview taken in 1983, Dylan would describe < ...

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Shot of Love, Shot of Love - The Recording Sessions, Shot of Love - The Songs, Shot of Love - Outtakes, Shot of Love - Aftermath, Shot of Love - Track Listing, Shot of Love - Personnel

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Aspects of Love - Act One. Aspects of Love is a character-driven play that begins at a train station at Pau in 1964. The 34-year-old Alex reflects on his love life over the past 17 years in "Love Changes Everything. This is the best-known song from the show is, which was released as a single by the show's original star, Michael Ball, and reached #2 in the UK charts. The play then flashes back to 1947, where 25-year-old starving actress Rose Vibert rants at her producer, Marcel, because the last show was an ...

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Aspects of Love, Aspects of Love - Plot, Aspects of Love - Act One, Aspects of Love - Act Two, Aspects of Love - Notable Musical Numbers, Aspects of Love - Act One, Aspects of Love - Act Two

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"Stories" was released May 22, 1995 with "Stories (cello version)" and "Isolation (Consolidated Synth Mix)". "Loose" was released July 17, 1995 with "Our Love Must Die", "Nice Guy" and "Loose (jungle mix)". "Diane" was released November 6, 1995 with "Misery (acoustic)", "Die Laughing (acoustic)", "Screamager (acoustic)", "Jude The Obscene (acoustic)", "Loose (acoustic)", "30 Seconds (acoustic)". "Misery" was released as a radio single in the U.S. on November 11, 1995 with "Evil Elvis (the lost demo)", "Knives (live)", "Stories ...

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Infernal Love, Infernal Love - Track listing, Infernal Love - Singles, Infernal Love - Personnel

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The Love Parade has its roots back to 1989 in the spirit of a changing Europe. It was first celebrated 4 months before the demolition of the Berlin Wall. It was started by the fresh Berlin Underground under the initiative of Matthias Roeingh aka "Dr. Motte". It was held as a political demonstration for peace and international understanding through music, even though its true intention was probably just to have a party. Until 1996, the parade was held on the famous Berlin "Ku'damm". Since by then not only the Ku'damm was overcrowded bu ...

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Love Parade, Love Parade - History, Love Parade - Legal issues, Love Parade - List of Love Parades in Berlin, Love Parade - Future of Love Parade

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The show was a variant of The Dating Game in which a bachelor or bachelorette would select from three potential dates of the opposite sex. A large majority of the contestants were single, in their 20s and looking for Mr. or Miss Right for the first time; however, there were plenty of older contestants who were single, widowed or divorced. Following a short interview, the audience was shown video excerpts of the three potential dates (of which the contestant had screened in their entirety). The audience is then asked to vote on which date they believe w ...

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Love Connection, Love Connection - Hosts, Love Connection - Announcers, Love Connection - Crew, Love Connection - Format, Love Connection - Notes

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During the weeks leading up to its official release, Love and Theft was greeted with unanimous, overwhelming praise, even winning over skeptics who questioned or dismissed the merits of his previous release Time Out of Mind (an album marked by even greater media hype). In a glowing review for his "Consumer Guide" column published by The Village Voice, Robert Christgau wrote: "Before minstrelsy scholar Eric Lott gets too excited about having his title stolen...he should recall that Dylan called his first cover albu ...

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Love and Theft, Love and Theft - The recording sessions, Love and Theft - The songs, Love and Theft - Aftermath, Love and Theft - Track listing, Love and Theft - Trivia, Love and Theft - Personnel

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Stoned Love - Song information. Essentially a Vietnam protest song, the lyrics of "Stoned Love" are a plea for the people of the world to end conflict and animosity between each other. Thomas chose the term "stoned love" (or alternately, "stone love") to define the concept of an unchanging bond between one another. "Stoned Love" was originally written by a Detroit teenager named Kenny Thomas. Thomas had entered some of his songs into a local radio talent show, which record producer Frank Wilson happened to ...

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Stoned Love, Stoned Love - History, Stoned Love - Song information, Stoned Love - Release and controversy, Stoned Love - Credits, Stoned Love - Sample

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The series centers around 19-year old Keitaro Urashima, a young man desperately trying to be accepted into the prestigious University of Tokyo in order to keep a childhood promise. His obsessive bent of doing so is one of the few shining spots of optimism in his otherwise unlucky life. He becomes manager of the Hinata House (Hinata Sō, also translated as the Hinata Lodge), property of his family and now an all-girls' dormitory. The story take ...

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Love Hina, Love Hina - Story, Love Hina - The Animated Production, Love Hina - Sub-articles, Love Hina - Related series

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The soundtrack album for Love Actually has achieved some success in the charts reaching the top 40 of the US Billboard 200 in 2004 and number 2 of the soundtrack album. It also has achieved gold record status in Australia. The track listing for the soundtrack is: The Trouble With Love Is - Kelly Clarkson Here With Me - Dido Sweetest Goodbye/Sunday Morning - Maroon 5 Turn Me On - Norah Jones Take Me As I Am - Wyclef Jean & Sharissa Songbird - Eva Cassidy Wher ...

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Love Actually, Love Actually - Plot, Love Actually - Billy Mack, Love Actually - Colin Frissell, Love Actually - Harry Karen and Mia, Love Actually - Jamie and Aurélia, Love Actually - John and Judy, Love Actually - Juliet Peter and Mark, Love Actually - Sarah and Karl, Love Actually - David and Natalie, Love Actually - Daniel Sam and Joanna, Love Actually - Cast and Characters, Love Actually - Main characters, Love Actually - Special Participation, Love Actually - The Americans, Love Actually - Other Characters, Love Actually - Awards, Love Actually - Soundtrack, Love Actually - Trivia

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During her freshman year at Syracuse University, Sebold was raped. In Lucky, her 1997 memoir of that event and its aftermath, she describes how a police officer told her the rapist's previous victim had died. She also saw the rapist on the street later and reported him to the police. Eventually she testified against him at trial, and he was convicted and received the maximum sentence. She began the novel in the early 1990s as an outgrowth of those events. However, she fiercely resists any suggestion that it had anything to do w ...

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The Lovely Bones, The Lovely Bones - Plot summary, The Lovely Bones - Title, The Lovely Bones - Origins, The Lovely Bones - Characters, The Lovely Bones - Themes and literary techniques, The Lovely Bones - Symbols and motifs, The Lovely Bones - Omniscient narrator, The Lovely Bones - Commercial and critical reception, The Lovely Bones - Controversies, The Lovely Bones - Film version, The Lovely Bones - Trivia

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Healing Love (Healing Love meditation, Healing Love practices, Seminal and Ovarian Kung Fu, Taoist Sexology and Practice): A foundational component of the Healing Tao System.

Healing Love is a mode of sexual intercourse that cultivates, conserves, and transforms sexual energy through the Microcosmic Orbit,a major energy channel. For men, Healing Love involves the power draw: sex without ejaculation.

(See also: Healing Love, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

Although the film was a critical and commercial success, "Love Story" has been the subject of a rather large scale backlash by many critics and casual movie fans over the years. The most obvious complaint has to do with the film's script, which has been condemned as a hodgepodge of romance cliches tossed together with sappy ending designed to exploit the emotion of the audience. Furthermore, the film's trademark quote -- "Love means never having to say you're sorry" (which is recited by MacGraw's character) -- has been the subject of ...

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Love Story, Love Story - Primary cast, Love Story - Plot, Love Story - Awards and Nominations, Love Story - Criticism, Love Story - Other Trivia

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Unlike other soap operas, Love of Life was originally not split up into segments dictated by commercial breaks. The only way a sponsor could purchase time for Love of Life was to buy time either before or after the show. In the 1960s, one commercial break was allotted around the middle of the program, but this was mostly to allow affiliates to reconnect with the feed after airing local commercials. In 1958 the show moved from 15 minutes to 25 minutes, a departure from the norm in a world where most soap operas were expanding to a half-hour. The last five minutes in the t ...

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Love of Life, Love of Life - Taping, Love of Life - Format, Love of Life - Titles and theme tunes, Love of Life - Plot, Love of Life - The final years

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Bill Nighy won a BAFTA Award as "Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role" in 2004 and the film received a couple of nominations in other categories. The film was also nominated for the Alexander Korda Award for Best British Film and Emma Thompson was nominated for "Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role". Love Actually was nominated in the 2004 Golden Globe Awards for Best Motion Picture - Comedy and Musical and Richard C ...

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Love Actually, Love Actually - Plot, Love Actually - Billy Mack, Love Actually - Colin Frissell, Love Actually - Harry Karen and Mia, Love Actually - Jamie and Aurélia, Love Actually - John and Judy, Love Actually - Juliet Peter and Mark, Love Actually - Sarah and Karl, Love Actually - David and Natalie, Love Actually - Daniel Sam and Joanna, Love Actually - Cast and Characters, Love Actually - Main characters, Love Actually - Special Participation, Love Actually - The Americans, Love Actually - Other Characters, Love Actually - Awards, Love Actually - Soundtrack, Love Actually - Trivia

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Grace Beasly has been content to live an unseen life as a upper-middle class housewife living in an apartment high above the city of Chicago with her husband who is a successful lawyer named Max Beasley. As the film begins, Grace awakens to cook her husband breakfast and watch a television morning show in which her favorite singer, Victor Fox, is being interviewed. Fox's easy listening music about old-fashioned romantic love has made him the idol of millions of middle-aged women across the globe, and when he announces a ...

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Unconditional Love, Unconditional Love - Cast and crew, Unconditional Love - Story, Unconditional Love - Criticism, Unconditional Love - DVD

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