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  • According to Vivien Leigh's biographer Hugo Vickers, during the filming, Korda kept asking Vivien to play Emma coarser at the time that Emma met Lord Nelson she was in her 30's and no longer the slyph she was when she posed for Romney and Reynolds. all that good food and wine in Naples!

    Archive 2010-04-01 Elizabeth Kerri Mahon 2010

  • According to Vivien Leigh's biographer Hugo Vickers, during the filming, Korda kept asking Vivien to play Emma coarser at the time that Emma met Lord Nelson she was in her 30's and no longer the slyph she was when she posed for Romney and Reynolds. all that good food and wine in Naples!

    Scandalous Women on Film: That Hamilton Woman Elizabeth Kerri Mahon 2010

  • It consisted in large part of the engineers and researchers who had built the Heart of Gold - mostly humanoid, but here and there were a few reptiloid atomineers, two or three green slyph-like maximegalacticans, an octopoid physucturalist or two and a Hooloovoo (a Hooloovoo is a super-intelligent shade of the color blue).

    The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy Adams, Douglas 1996

  • It consisted in large part of the engineers and researchers who had built the Heart of Gold - mostly humanoid, but here and there were a few reptiloid atomineers, two or three green slyph-like maximegalacticans, an octopoid physucturalist or two and a Hooloovoo (a Hooloovoo is a super-intelligent shade of the color blue).

    The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Adams, Douglas, 1952- 1979

  • Although my hands-on time with the game proper was brief, basically consisting of negotiating simple light puzzles in ruin-style areas (with what appeared to be ancient, heavy machinery), searching for clues with the help of a trusty slyph guide while attacking enemies-strange shadow beasts-Kasahasa says there are also puzzles in which you must manipulate your own shadow to become something else.

    Ars Technica 2010

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