Word: venusized
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...love with him. When she cooed, "Should you like to see me waltz with any man but yourself?", he replied that "he should have no objection whatever, upon which with no more ado the fair Lady whips a knife into her own side." Fortunately, observes a cynical onlooker: "Venus . . . interposed in the shape of a pair of stays, so that the blow was by no means fatal...
...rather plain Venus in a gown, bending to teach her little boy how to nock an arrow. The playfulness of the piece in no way modifies its classic harmony...
John Blow: Venus and Adonis (Margaret Ritchie, Gordon Clinton; orchestra and chorus conducted by Anthony Lewis : L'Oiseau-Lyre). A late 17th century opera, complete with basso continuo, cupids, and Venus' own recipe for happy love...
...Renoir's Venus Victorieuse (see cut), rejected by Salem's citizens, is now in Portland's Art Museum...
...third doorbell (Dolores Donlon), Quinn plays the gentleman and invites the girl to go out with him. "I can't," she says. "I haven't a thing to wear." So she and Quinn stay home. Last stop is a girl named Venus (Peggie Castle), but by this time Quinn seems a little too tired to play an adequate Adonis...