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...Orleans Museum of Art; and the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, in the city's warehouse district. From downtown, spend $1.25 for a 25-minute trip north on the new Canal Street cable car to the bucolic Sculpture Garden. More than 50 bronze and stainless steel pieces--including Venus Victorious, by French impressionist Pierre Renoir--adorn the garden's lagoons and pine groves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beyond Bourbon | 12/17/2004 | See Source »

...Austrian noble Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (1836-95) publishes “Venus im Pelz” (Venus in Furs), a semi-autobiographical work about a man who convinces a woman to make him her slave. The beautiful woman, the Venus in furs of the title, becomes cruel and abusive while trying to sexually please. The Romantic era work caused an outrage in Sacher-Masoch’s home city of Lemburg and has been subject to frequent bans ever since...

Author: By Anne M. Lowrey, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: From Freud to America: A short history of sadomasochism | 10/28/2004 | See Source »

...candidates are not the only ones anxious about strong women today. TV executives are too, after the out-of-nowhere success of the No. 1 new series Desperate Housewives. ABC's dark-humored soap suggests that all is not well on Venus in 2004--and that you underappreciate women at your peril, in TV and in life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fury of Women Scorned | 10/25/2004 | See Source »

...candidates are not the only ones anxious about strong women today. TV executives are too, after the out-of-nowhere success of the No. 1 new series Desperate Housewives. ABC's dark-humored soap suggests that all is not well on Venus in 2004 - and that you underappreciate women at your peril, in TV and in life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fury of Women Scorned | 10/18/2004 | See Source »

...brief moment, it looked as though Athens would be the resting place for numerous chunks of American pride. Venus Williams and Andy Roddick got bounced in tennis, the gymnasts weren't nearly as sparkling as the glitter in their hair, and Michael Phelps looked merely human. Before long, though, the U.S. was sitting in its customary place atop the medal standings, with golds in everything from double trap shooting to road cycling to gymnastics; the swim team alone took 28 medals. While flip turns and double Arabians are cute in a quadrennial sort of way, they do not display...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Basketball: The World's Got Game | 8/30/2004 | See Source »

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