Word: venetian
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...yellow, lime green, burnt orange, cocoa brown, wine red. Decorators drew their materials from all over the world, combined Philippine rattan with American brass, mixed 19th century antiques with 20th century Egyptian coral sculpture, and thought nothing of flanking a modern sofa with a pair of smiling, five-foot Venetian blackamoors, carved in 1710. Among the more interesting experiments: ¶ A brass and wood Barbecue Room by Manhattan's Melanie Kahane, which brings the outdoor barbecue indoors. Along one side ranges a long barbecue counter with roasting spit and charcoal grill; along the others, a bookcase, radio and record...
...Transylvania. On the way, he said, he was robbed by some French companions, saved from starvation by a kind farmer, thrown overboard by some Roman Catholics on a pilgrim ship because he was a Protestant, picked up by friendly privateers, whom he joined in an attack on a Venetian argosy that made him, in one swoop, a well...
Poet Alfred de Musset was next on the list. She sat on a cushion at his feet, puffing a long pipe of Bosnian cherrywood, while he murmured that "his genius was a poor, frail thing." It was. George left Alfred half dead in a Venetian hotel and took up with his Italian doctor. "Is it in you, my Pietro," Sand wrote to her medico, "in you at long last that I shall see my dream fulfilled?" It was not in Pietro...
Later, after the Venetian ambassador wangled his release, Casanova went back to Mengs and more adventures. But the long-suffering Mengs soon had enough and asked the great libertine to leave. Says Casanova bitterly in his Memoirs: "To the painter I wrote that I felt that I had deserved the shameful insult he had given me by my great mistake in acceding to his request to honor him by staying at his house ... As a matter of fact, he had only asked me to stay with him to gratify his own vanity...
...noisome and laundry festoons every tenement, no longer seems such a violent affront to its breathtaking setting. To the land of the Fra Angelicos and hand-painted Sicilian donkey carts has come the neon glare of modern living-billboards, Life Savers, Esso stations, Hopalong Cassidy, even a little TV. Venetian canals boast traffic lights, and only a lusty gondolier could raise his tenor above the gaseous snarl of motoscafi...