e take the Marilyn Monroes and the Ava Gardners in our stride.
1959Magazine 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.
