Word: odes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Acharnians,” the protagonist Dikaiopolis holds a religious procession with a model phallus and sings a bawdy song called the phallikon in Greek. He instructs his slave to hold a “phallus-pole” up stiff and straight and sings an ode to the “midnight rambler and carouser.” The phallus procession was a celebration of a peace treaty that Dikaiopolis had personally arranged with the enemy Spartans. In “Lysistrata,” another comedy by Aristophanes, the women of Athens go on a sex strike...
...things can interfere with the best intentions. Would sudden heart failure or a fainting spell have left Jackson with time enough to put the baby in a safe place? What about a sniper's firing from a nearby roof? Even the unlikeliest possibilities are always heeded by mature parents. ODE LAFORGE Fontenilles, France...
...even wrote a poem titled “Ode to the Cafe Pamplona...
...Granted a moment in the spotlight, Hu beams as if his life has actually been spared. As for Tarantino, he's clearly having a ball. When the movie is released, audiences might not catch all of the allusions in this loving ode to Asian films, especially to the kung fu genre. And will Hollywood-reared audiences really appreciate the absence of horror-film blood in Kill Bill's Samurai-style scenes? Tarantino isn't worrying about that. "I'm making this film for me," he grins. "Everyone else is along for the ride...
Four members of the Hasty Pudding Theatricals, decked out in flamboyant drag, concluded the event with the 2002 Class Ode, a satirical song with references to the closing of the Crimson Sports Grille and the campaign on campus for a living wage...