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There's Nero's ravenous tutor, Plato Pasta (Berman), who's busy planning his ideal Republic "with room for everybody...except for them frigging Corinthians." There's Plato's love interest Medusa Pade (Andrew Burlinson '97), a love-starved gorgon with killer head of hair...

Author: By Joanna M. Weiss, | Title: Kicklines at the Colosseum | 2/24/1994 | See Source »

These artists often combined their individual skills as landscape or figure painters to collaborate on a single canvas. The bloody and gory details of The Head of Medusa, a collaboration by Rubens and Snyders, have been considered so frightening that in the past the painting has been exhibited behind a curtain. It's not a pretty picture, but you can decide for yourself...

Author: By Joanna Dreifus, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: First Major Rubens Exhibit in America launched at MFA | 10/7/1993 | See Source »

...peacenik ("I was no phony...l was bona fide. I sucked off Jerry Gracia."). But despite her commitment to hippiedom, Bubbles still has a lot of internalized racism knocking around in her drug-addled brain. So her Black maid, who is a sort of cross between Aunt Jemima and Medusa, puts a voodoo spell on Bubbies, giving her a mysterious case of 'negrophobia...

Author: By Davids. Kurnick, | Title: Negrophobia is a Racy Tale Of Flesh, Freaks and Fear | 8/14/1992 | See Source »

Clio Hears Medusa's Laugh: Feminism, Literary Criticism, and History--by Simon Sxhama, professor and other members of the H-R community. Dudley House, Common Room, Lehman Hall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: At Harvard | 3/5/1992 | See Source »

...them from the blazing heat and light ("The white man," Miss Lissie notes, "worships gold because it is the sun he has lost"). Thus was conceived whites' envy of blacks and a determination to crush them, a process that began, at least symbolically, in Greek mythology when Perseus beheaded Medusa, who was really the Great Mother, the Black African Goddess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Myth to Be Taken on Faith | 5/1/1989 | See Source »

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