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...sort of assertions, one might think, that sweating pornographers used to make in court about the "redeeming social value" of their work. All storytelling, hence most of literature from Homer onward, rises from gossip's fertile lowlands. Even the deepest primordial myths are essentially gossip: "Zeus and Hera are fighting again?" "Per shirr...
Under the blazing Greek sun, near the temples of Hera and Zeus, the Olympic torch was lit last week. For the next month, 4,820 runners-one for each kilometer of the route via Bulgaria and Rumania-will carry the flame to the newly refurbished Lenin Stadium on the Moscow River. When the torch gets there, the path should be clear. Moscow police are seeing to that, with zealous traffic control in preparation for the Games. Their strategy has totalitarian simplicity: no drivers, no traffic. Although Moscow motorists usually cruise at about 50 m.p.h., police have begun stopping cars going...
...than seven times, but for her latest film Actress Ursula Andress dresses up at least a bit. Perhaps she wore clothes out of respect for her distinguished co-stars in Clash of Titans, a $10 million mythic fantasy with Sir Laurence Olivier playing Zeus, Claire Bloom as his wife Hera, and Maggie Smith as Thetis, mother of Achilles. She certainly didn't need to dress because of her role: she plays the goddess of love, Aphrodite, a fitting part for the woman who once said she keeps in shape "by loving...
...gold and silver rhyta are the highlight of the show. These are drinking horns in the shape of animal or human heads,and they were created in the 6th and 5th centuries B.C. when Greek influence on Thracian art was strongest. One golden rhyton is decorated with reliefs of Hera, Artemis and Apollo around the rim and a billy goat at the base--the wine gushes from a spout in the goat's chest so one has to drain it all down at once...
...potency in each of us." His notions are tantalizing but undeveloped, and in a particularly freewheeling last chapter, he admits that his "lines of thinking ... fly into many pieces. " Some of the pieces are nutshell comparisons that are certainly arcane if not goofy ("The military-industrial complex is Hera-Heracles-Hephaestus"). Miller contends that polytheism deepens human experience -and then equates Aphrodite with the Playmate of the Month...