Word: venuses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Item: Cyprus (pop. 500,000), Venus' home island, promised to cause almost as much trouble as she had. The British, who run Cyprus, answered the demands of most Cypriots for union with Greece by promising a vague home-rule plan. This enraged the Turkish minority on the island. In sympathy, Turkish mobs rioted in Istanbul, and inflicted damage on their town estimated at ten times the value of the whole island of Cyprus (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...trumpets, a glitter of sequins and an outburst of romantic candles, television's most Spectacular season opened last week. NBC pronounced the summer prematurely over and raised the curtain on a season of high promise with a 90-minute version of the 1943 Broadway musical, One Touch of Venus. Janet Blair had the tiptoe grace required of a goddess awakened after slumbering for thousands of years in marble; Kurt Weill's pleasant music occasionally gave the show levitation; Russell Nype and George Gaynes struggled bravely against the shackling grasp of the heavyhanded plot. But Venus underlined the fact...
Spectacular (Sat. 9 p.m., NBC). One Touch of Venus; with Janet Blair, Russell Nype...
...from Underground. One way was by digging. In 1345 the citizens of Siena found a buried Roman statue of Venus, carried it in triumph through the streets and installed it in the city square. Venus smiled on the square for twelve years, during which Siena was visited by plague, civil war and invasion. At last, blaming her for the flood of troubles, the people superstitiously destroyed Venus and dumped her fragments on Florentine soil. Still, all over Italy the ice of ignorance was beginning to break up. Scholars were studying ancient manuscripts; artists found inspiration in classical art, with...
Below the Salt. The barefoot Venus of Smithfield, N.C. was in some respects an excellent match for the Little Lord Fauntleroy of Hoboken. They had come from well below the salt, and they loved the high life at the head of the table. Ava, who had been chastened in two marriages and on the analytic couch as well, saw through her martini glass more darkly than did Frank. "If I were a man," she told him, "I wouldn't like me." But Frank liked her very much indeed, left home to keep her stormy, full-time company, finally persuaded...