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...story of cold, glittery Amanda, an ambitious historical novelist, and Julian, the cold, glittery millionaire publisher whom she lures to a marriage bed with no more than "her usual annoyance at the damage to her permanent." It is also the story of ever-maudlin Ken, a kind of tame Venus's-flytrap, whom Amanda keeps around less for biological than for decorative reasons. Ken might have gone on being a tame cat indefinitely but for a quiet little country mouse named Vicky ("I like furniture and houses all warm and used and kind"), who gobbled him up when Amanda...
...that this country has the worst record for bigamy of any European nation." The Daily Herald reported it was not drunkenness, but love, which caused men to talk and write of impending military operations; the Herald prayed for an artist who would draw "Cupid with a grinning skull and Venus in black mourning...
...ivory, jades and jewelry have gone into bank vaults. A carefully chosen 2% of the museum's remaining 500,000 treasures have been trucked to the country hideaway. Gone are the Altman and most of the Morgan collections, the Van Eycks and other Flemish Primitives, Rubens' bulky Venus and Adonis, the museum's most famous El Greco, View of Toledo...
...Lowell House Musical Society, which for the past four years has specialized in resurrecting forgotten masterpieces of English opera like Purcell's "Dido and Aeneas" and "King Arthur," Handel's "Acis and Galatea," and Blow's "Venus and Adonis," has struck out on a new path this year. It has chosen to do perhaps the one thing better than reviving an old masterpiece, and that is to introduce a new one. For if Randall Thompson's "Solomon and Balkis" is not quite a masterpiece, it is the nearest thing to it the American opera has seen yet. That the Musical...
Rubens' first wife was perfect in every respect save passion; his second, who was 16 when he married her in his 503, had passion alone to recommend her. But for an aging man who had been careful all his life, that was enough. He painted her as Venus in furs, as all three Graces, and (for her bedroom) as a pornographic maiden attacked by a shepherd. He had had plenty of practice when he received from the King of Spain an order for 112 pictures on Ovid's Metamorphoses ("Never has any painter received so gigantic a commission...