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Pandora`s Box

Pandora`s Box logo #21000[BDSM] Pandora`s Box is a professional domination BDSM studio in New York City. It has been the subject of the documentary Fetishes by Nick Broomfield, and a book by the photographic journalist Susan Meiselas, as well as the subject of numerous magazine and newspaper articles. Its premises are a large basement facility in the Chelsea distri...
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Pandora`s Box

Pandora`s Box logo #21000[nightclub] Pandora`s Box was a rock and roll nightclub on the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood, California. It was at the center of the Sunset Strip curfew riots in the mid-1960s. ==History== The club was located at 8118 Sunset Boulevard, at the corner of Sunset Boulevard and Crescent Heights Boulevard. In 1962, the club was bought by deejay...
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Pandora`s Box

Pandora`s Box logo #21000[play] Pandora`s Box (1904) (Die Büchse der Pandora) is a play by the German dramatist Frank Wedekind. It forms the second part of his pairing of `Lulu` plays, the first being Earth Spirit (1895), both of which depict a society `riven by the demands of lust and greed`. G. W. Pabst directed a silent film version Pandora`s Box (1929), which ...
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Pandora`s box

Pandora`s box logo #21000 Pandora`s box is an artifact in Greek mythology, taken from the myth of Pandora`s creation in Hesiod`s Works and Days. The `box` was actually a large jar (πίθος pithos) given to Pandora (Πανδώρα, `all-gifted`, `all-giving`), which contained all the evils of the world. Today the phrase `to open Pandora`s box` means to perfor...
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Pandora’s box

Pandora’s box logo #20148 A saying that comes from Greek mythology meaning a source of troubles.
Example: Opening up a ‘can of worms’ is like opening up Pandora’s box – you’d better be careful, as there will be problems!
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Pandora`s Box

Pandora`s Box logo #21003(from the article `Pabst, G.W.`) ...conditions and the individual. Outstanding are Abwege (1928; Crisis), Die Büchse der Pandora (1929; Pandora`s Box), and Das Tagebuch einer ... ...(1928). Her performances attracted the attention of the German director G.W. Pabst, who cast her as the amoral, self-destructive temptress Lulu in ... ...
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Pandora`s Box

Pandora`s Box logo #21003(from the article `Wedekind, Frank`) ...adolescents. In the Lulu plays, Erdgeist (1895; Earth Spirit) and Die Büchse der Pandora (1904; Pandora`s Box), he extended the theme of sex to ... ...Who`s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962). Almost equally influential as a turn-of-the-century master of the grotesque is Frank Wedekind, whose E...
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Pandora`s box

Pandora`s box logo #20400[n] - (Greek mythology) a box that Zeus gave to Pandora with instructions that she not open it
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Pandora`s box

Pandora`s box logo #20974 noun (Greek mythology) a box that Zeus gave to Pandora with instructions that she not open it; she gave in to her curiosity and opened it; all the miseries and evils flew out to afflict mankind
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