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...frontier is gone but for the sons of the pioneers the instinct lingers on. To the desk of Nebraska's Senator Hugh Butler came the letter of a 14-year-old constituent. "I've written the Bureau of Land Management to inquire about buying property on Venus," it said. "I received the reply that it had no authority to give ownership. Therefore, I am asking you to write a bill. Something which would in the Senate further my interests. I am neither joking nor have I read too much science fiction. It appears that colonization of the universe...
...museum gave no hint of the price it had paid for its new Aphrodite, but called the statue the artistic equal of the Uffizi's Medici Venus-which was probably copied from the same Greek original. It was Praxiteles who created the first unclad Aphrodite, around the middle of the 4th century B.C. Praxiteles' original is lost to art, but many a sculptor afterwards tried to give his work the same fluid lines and graceful posture. Of those who tried, the unknown sculptor of the Metropolitan Aphrodite is one of the few who even came close...
...Shape of Venus. So began l'affaire de Réthy, the royal scandal that helped Leopold lose his throne. Last week, strong national feelings about the princess were jeopardizing the prestige of Leopold's son, 22-year-old King Baudouin...
...sickly in mien as he is diffident in manner, Baudouin as a child never had much fun until the Princess de Réthy became his maman. She was young* and frolicsome, with what one admirer called "the complexion of a rose and the shape of Venus." Baudouin adored his vivacious stepmother and, according to the gossips, is still strongly influenced by her. She got blamed for Baudouin's rude refusal to attend the funeral of Britain's George...
...then a- gradual swing forward until his bronzes became as stylized as his canvases. Matisse's Head of Marguerite (1915) is sharp and delicate, his Large Seated Nude (1925) a study in flat, glossy planes. At the end of Tate's exhibit are his two final works: Venus in a Shell, long-legged and featureless, her arms drawn up behind her head, and Tiara, a writhing, lumpy mass of hair and head. Their date is 1930, and as far as the world knows, Matisse has never done another sculpture...