Word: corselet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tudor, which turned Greek mythology's trio of goddesses into three aging Parisian filles of dubious joie, vying for the favor of a sleepy potential customer (Tudor). Famed Choreographer Agnes de Mille, who danced the part first in 1938, turned up as Venus in droopy net stockings, ruffled corselet and a blonde wig suggesting Gorgeous George playing Lady Godiva. As Juno, Ballerina Viola Essen conveyed the bored allure of a Minsky stripper at the first morning show. And as Minerva, Ballet Theater Angel Lucia Chase achieved the air of a brave but discouraged workhorse whose limbs simply...
...peace. But sculptors of the period seldom let art stand in the way of such a grand theme, and the resulting decorations reminded a modern critic of illustrations from an old edition of Bulfinch's Mythology. With all the subtle reserve of Victorian design, one medallion contains a Roman corselet, a sword and a helmet, shields, sprays of laurel leaves, Roman faces, spear heads, part of a fortress, and, topping all, an American eagle bearing a thunderbolt...