Word: venusized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There is nothing more archetypally Italian than Botticelli's Venus. With undulating golden locks cloaking a voluptuous nude body, she stares elusively into space from the suggestive pink bloom of her shell. It is only fitting that this piece of ready-made Italian ambiente adorns the walls of the new incarnation of Alloro...
Childhood is the only time and place that grows larger as it is left behind. Two weeks at the seashore appear, in memory, as a floodlit Oz. The first airplane ride might have been to Venus. The early hours spent with radio, TV and films are the foundation of adult imagination. Yet when children grow up, they suffer some sad amnesia of taste. How else could former kids provide television programs designed to do nothing with time but kill it--as if, in Thoreau's phrase, it were possible to kill time without injuring eternity? From the moment...
...space travel was a whole lot easier. See Abbott and Costello Go to Mars (1953). So simple a janitor (Bud) and a half-wit (Lou) could stumble onto a big silver sausage of a rocketship, flip a few switches, and go all the way to . . . Mardi Gras. Then Venus, with all the usual misadventures and comic contortions along the way. The code term for this is "classic comedy." It's a warning, because it's dated. Soft spots, stiff acting by supporting players, and yet A & C fans (you know who you are) are watching for a reason. The slapping...
...Okay, CP knows this one's no Buck Privates (1941). No Andrew Sisters, either. But Venus is still crawling with beautiful women, and they're beautiful women you can watch with the kiddies -- try Sunday morning. How can CP say it? Comedy was simpler then, feminism was simpler then (alive and well on Venus, incidentally) and gosh -- space travel was simpler then. Much simpler, although they never do get to Mars. Now if only Lockheed-Martin would start building silver sausages and fish-bowl space helmets, we'd all have a better place to go on President's Day weekend...
...VENUS & SERENA WILLIAMS The tennis phenoms prove they are both champs...