Word: venetian
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...names, hardly seem to be acting at all. They do an excellent job of comfortably keeping their positions in the piece, never over shadowing one another or the imagery. No effort is made to develop character. On the stage, they are objects, just as the lighted Christmas tree, the venetian blind, and the alarm clock are objects...
Fantasy Furniture by Bruce M. Newman (Rizzoli; $50). A mythological mahogany bird to cradle an infant in 19th century Russia; jolly Black Forest bears to serve as chair-backs; gilded Venetian settees with shell motifs to turn salons into grottoes: thus did the dreams of burghers and kings like Bavaria's mad Ludwig II make chimeras real...
...change in his fortunes came in 1524, when he was 25. Giulio was approached by the Venetian writer and rake Pietro Aretino, who wanted illustrations for his Sonetti Lussuriosi (Salacious Sonnets). Giulio produced 16 drawings, each depicting a handsome couple rutting with the energy of blacksmiths in a forge, and sometimes in ways that would give you, me or Jesse Helms a hernia. These, like so much of Giulio's other work, may have come from a classical prototype: the spintriae, or tokens, stamped with obscene designs that were used for entry to Roman brothels in the second century...
...simmering sauce of endives, smoked pancetta and double cream fills the wood-beamed Venetian kitchen with its aroma. Bits of baby lamb are soaking up the flavor of juniper berries and white wine. Strings of homemade tonnarelli are drying nearby. Standing over her restaurant-size range, Marcella Hazan looks with mock astonishment at six blushing students. "You don't cook? What do you do? Starve?" It is her standard line when Americans complain that they don't have time to prepare real meals. "I despair," she says, waving a sauce-laden wooden spoon...
With her best-selling books and private cooking lessons in her Venetian kitchen, Marcella Hazan makes the case for food that "matters...