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McElroy, a physicist at the Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona, served as a member of the NASA Lunar and Planetary missions board, for whom he produced studies of the atmospheres of Venus, Mars, and Jupiter...
...week stand in Sacramento before moving on to San Diego) include an ancient Egyptian portrait statue in granite, a group of Chinese jade animals, a bronze rooster from the Guinea Coast of Africa, Renaissance statuettes, two wooden saints from 16th century Flanders and a 19th century neoclassical Italian marble Venus. None is too large to be held between two hands, and all were selected for the various textures of their surfaces...
...clinic personnel, including Masters and Johnson, watched and filmed the proceedings. Although the book was deliberately written in clinical terms digestible only by doctors, it sold 250,000 copies in hardcover?at $10 each. Response also sparked a number of journalistic ponies, plus at least two lubricious novels ?Venus Examined, The Experiment ?about goings-on at sex-research centers. Masters and Johnson became public figures...
...Harvard ???-poet, is another player. (For instance: "On ??? to/ meet the astrologer/ 1 noticed my fly/ ??? down"). Loewinsohn plays it like he rode that ???cycle: real cool. "How can a girl with such a ???lly be so desirable?" he asks in the poem ???, Loewinsohn andc," then dubs the Lady. "Venus ???usseldorf, curvilinear, oviform," For an epi??? to the last group of poems in the book ???ok of Ayres," after Thomas Campion). he ???unces. "I need to take a new tack./ and sit on it." ??? success of this kind of poem depends entirely ??? quality of the surprise. Sometimes...
Whimsy is unavoidable. A dotty baronet has received a consignment of cut-rate statues from his alcoholic twin brother. The stone gods and goddesses include, naturally, Venus. A ring slipped on Venus' finger by a nervous bridegroom brings her to life, and love is reborn in a cold climate. The cast of characters, Burgess has explained, is drawn fondly from stock theatrical figures: "The boneheaded gold-hearted country squire in plus fours, the pert and resourceful servant, the grim but reliable chatelaine, the sweet guileless young lovers, the comic Anglican clergyman." Only a writer who can bring such scarecrows...