Word: venusized
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...sapphire sea and sky, orange groves and olive trees, then with the pastoral charm of tinkling goat bells and squat white stone houses, and finally with its people, who teach him a language of the heart that is puzzlingly Greek to him. Biggest puzzle of all is his Venus de Miloesque wife Iris, who plunges into the thankless chore of running a local clinic without an outward trace of pity for the poverty and peasant ignorance of her fellow islanders. What she is trying to smother in work, Patrick belatedly discovers, is a long-smoldering love interest in the humbly...
...wise frivolity as to suggest that English Novelist David ("Bunny") Garnett has snitched his basic idea from La Ronde. The biological hero of the novel is handsome Alexander Golightly (Alexis to his friends), who is in his late teens when Aspects of Love begins. Aspiring to the labors of Venus rather than Hercules, Alexis proposes two weeks of illicit bliss to Rose, a stranded French actress with a Greek drape shape. They withdraw to an unused south-of-France villa owned by Alexis' uncle. But the uncle, Sir George Dillingham, a 62-year-old Edwardian dandy steals a march...
...first mechanical pipe organ, a water-driven monster called a hydraulus, so awed the ancients that they enshrined it in a temple of Venus. A 5th century organ at Jerusalem thundered forth such a gigantic noise that admirers listened from the Mount of Olives, nearly a mile away. The stir that the organ is creating today is almost as awe-inspiring...
...ideal, a marriage between humanism and religion, was the San Marco convent, which Cosimo prevailed upon Pope Eugenius IV to transfer from the Sylvetrines to the Dominican Observants. Cosimo ordered his favorite architect Michelozzo to repair the building, richly endowed it with 400 rare manuscripts and classic statues of Venus and Apollo. To do the frescoes, Cosimo called on the great Dominican painter Fra Angelico...
...Jacques Offenbach wasn't a funny old gentleman whose feet were "firmly fixed in the clouds," he probably should have been. Pierre Fresnay's screen portrayal of the nearsighted and bewhiskered French composer is delightful. He ambles blithely into a ladies' dressing room, offers a job to a status (Venus), and accidentally challenges a Russian general to a duel--all because he can't see, and doesn't much care...