Word: satyrize
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Alexandre Dumas père was another happy satyr; women referred to him, with awe, as a "force of nature." Dumas also had a happy disposition, and since he could not be faithful himself, he did not ask fidelity from others. He once caught a friend in his wife's bedroom, and, instead of starting the usual tiresome scene, invited him to spend the night. The next morning he shook the man's hand. "Shall two old friends quarrel about a woman," he asked, "even when she's a lawful wife?" Like a good father, he gave...
...those same, perpetually half-shut eyes. With his hairline receding and the lines of his face hardening now into some sort of death mask. Nicholson doesn't try to play Chambers as the twenty-three year old punk Cain envisioned. Instead he slouches around like a bored satyr. He seems to revel in his decay, in his unnerving ability to play an utterly reptilian Don Juan...
...feelings, and half-felt at that, more play makes it seem likely that they are, and that Browne is not steadfastly serious about them. He's still wandering the tightrope between a purely romantic sensibility and the flatly cynical "life is shit so let's screw," attitude of a Satyr...
Herbert Hunt hocked his 8,748-acre ranch, which stretches through three counties in South Texas, and a collection of Roman and Greek statues and busts, including a 5th century B.C. dancing satyr. Brother Lamar Hunt pledged money due him from his holdings in the Dallas Tornado soccer team and the Chicago Bulls basketball team. Lamar also added his art collection. A prized possession: Frederic Edwin Church's The Icebergs, which he bought last October for $2.5 million, the highest price ever paid at auction for an American painting...
Most alien of all is Mark Linn-Baker's Puck, a nasty demon who sticks his tongue out and rasps at friend and foe. His satyr's outfit and white makeup don't distance him from humankind nearly so much as his utter indifference to pain and suffering in others. When Oberon orders him to undo the effects of his mistake on the lovers and to anoint Lysander's eyes with the potion that will restore his love for Hermia, he nearly fouls up again and gives Demetrius the charm. He says "Lord, what fools these mortals be!" spitefully...