Word: golden
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this figure meet a female from whom he appears to take pleasure. She is a miracle of art, a mechanical doll made of china. Casanova screws her differently, with a new harmony. They are two freaks of a kind. Casnova's lovemaking is artifice, aptly symbolized by the mechanical golden cock he carries into each bedroom, winds, and sets going to accompany his pulsations with its music and pumping...
...stuff his myth has been made out of: Venetian splendour, glittering women coming towards him, or running coquettishly away. But in his dream he dances with only one lady, on a frozen Grand Canal under the Rialto; the porcelain doll and Casanova revolve to the music of his golden cock, in a world made only of illusion, creations of self-conscious...
...lovemaking is something he must control and design. As a result, he succeeds in giving pleasure to others, but he can only take pleasure in artifice. Indeed, he himself becomes no more than a created object. Fellini's artist, as portrayed in the figure of Casanova, is the golden bird Yeats once envisioned...
...upon a golden bough to sing...
Most U.S. scientific and medical endeavors already use metrics, so the writers and reporter-researchers in the two sections are well prepared for the switch. Medicine Writer Frederic Golden has always kept a calculator in his desk to help him transform figures from one system to the other. For those less well equipped-or well informed -confusion can create problems. Science Writer Peter Stoler recalls A Day's Wait, a short story by Ernest Hemingway: "The hero is a small American boy who gets the flu. and the doctor measures his temperature at 102°. The child had gone...