Word: venuses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mutual's WOR (blanketing 13 states). But Shepherd's main weapon against the "day people" was a wacky, stream-of-consciousness monologue, e.g., discussing the vital role of the "Flexible Flyer sled in the U.S. cultural renaissance," the difficulties of explaining Coney Island to a scientist from Venus, the socio-anthropological facts behind wearing paper hats at parties...
...Inner secrets," says Rose Marie Reid, "create a foundation fit," for a maillot of zephyr wool and Lastex. Catalina's striped suit, resembling a TV channel that needs focusing, is made of lisle cotton, clings to the bodice, has loose, boy-length shorts. Cole of California's "Venus" is a wrapped-to-the-figure white drape. "It's putty in your hands," says Cole, "but on your figure it sculpts you as Pygmalion sculptured Galatea...
...both astronomers and science fiction writers. Mars is the king of planets. Its atmosphere is dense enough to make life possible, but not so dense that it hides the surface, as does the cloudy white atmosphere of Venus. There is water on Mars - not much, but some. Thin winds carry clouds of several types. The color of the surface changes blotchily with the seasons, as if vegetation were growing. There is a wealth of fine detail just at the threshold of vision, but even the best astronomical instruments have not been able so far to take photographs of it. Some...
Except for these mild missteps, Bus Stop is neatly paced and satisfying. Actress Monroe, robbed of her usual glamour by bleached makeup and unmoistened lips, still generates enough sex to console the nation's Venus-worshipers, and her comedy turns stand up well against the broad playing of Don Murray and the smooth professionalism of Betty Field and Eileen Heckart...
...brush stroke and bold handling of color, his insistence on psychological insight, his dramatic use of light and shadow-long kept him in eclipse. Though in his own day Velasquez thought nothing of borrowing a pose from Rembrandt's Negress Lying Down (he used it for his own Venus), Rembrandt's reputation became primarily the custody of painters in later generations. In their hands, Rembrandt's work has become one of the richest lodes in Western...