Word: cyclopean
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Metamorphoses may offer only a Cyclopean peek at Ovid's sportive immortals, but even Cyclops would agree that it is an amusing and salubrious eyeful...
...superficial and burdensomely clever piece. "Ireland's history, or rather the lack of it"-with seven prehistoric cyclopean Duns in its Aran Islands and tumuli in the Boyne and the Blackwater valleys that can be compared with only the pyramids of the Pharaohs! Your man is daft. May God have mercy on his soul...
...buff, are maneuvered into position on a wheeled table and plastered with sensing devices. These are wired to a console that lights up like a berserk jukebox as the couple begins intercourse. To complete the burlesque, a Harpo Marxish doctor hovers around, leering at the pair with the added cyclopean eye of a dental mirror. Other skits treat oral sex and masturbatory fantasies with sportive humor, and the sprinkling of quadriliterals beginning with the letters f, c, and s are more festive than aggressive. A dance of love has the silvery sensuousness of a pas de deux performed under...
...state-run E.N.I, monopoly became a world petroleum power under the late Enrico Mattei and his successor, Eugenio Cefis. Mattei bought crude from the Soviets, developed natural-gas resources in the Po Valley, and proudly declared that in building E.N.I., "I broke 8,000 laws." To sidestep Cyclopean bureaucrats-with their time-consuming rules about building permits and their endless paper work-he laid the pipelines at night, while the officials slept...
...lipped exurban earth goddesses, bitchily toothy yet pudgily placid. These women blend into their surroundings of golden beaches, russet leaves and close-cropped lawns. And they are accompanied by other members of the family circle. De Kooning's Cybele has found a froglike mate, titled Man, a leering Cyclopean nude, contorted in some private courting ritual. Their bloated offspring, as seen in Woman and Child, is allied to the parents by De Kooning's inimitable soiled-pink flesh tones...