Word: venus
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Among the faces and talents freshly added to Metamorphoses, Avery Shreiber is a comic treasure. Rather resembling a stocky, mustachioed Sicilian just off the grape treadmill, he is a muscle-brained Vulcan. Enraged to find his bride Venus cuckolding him with Mars, he exposes the pair in a hilariously crafty bungle. He is equally diverting as a Pygmalion who cannot get over how "real" his diaphanously clad Galatea is, a true lovely of a girl played by Mary Frann. Another splendid addition to the company is a lissome black dancer and actress, Paula Kelly, whose Circean seductiveness is apparent...
...Venus's-Flytrap. Fittingly enough, Philip (Alec McCowen), the hero of The Philanthropist, is a philologist. In Act I, Philip is insouciantly embroiled in a drawing-room-cum-bedroom farce; in Act II, he is mournfully bogged down in a talky self-analysis of considerable pathos. This makes for a jarring discrepancy of mood without any compensating illumination of meaning. Act I is fun and naughty games. In it, Philip ends up in bed with a Venus's-fly-trap of a girl. His fiancée Celia (Jane Asher) pairs up with a cynical aphorist...
...years since Russia launched Sputnik 1, man has steadily pushed back the frontiers of space. Astronauts have walked on the moon, the Soviet spacecraft Venera 7 has soft-landed on Venus, and three U.S. Mariner spacecraft have swept past Mars, transmitting detailed pictures back to earth. Now scientists are preparing for an even more far-reaching journey. Last week NASA discussed its plans to launch the first unmanned planetary probe to the outer part of the solar system-a 550-lb. spacecraft that will fly past Jupiter...
Venera 7 remained alive for 23 minutes on the hostile surface of Venus, confirming what data from earlier U.S. and Soviet probes had suggested: that the temperature stayed about 900° F. and that atmospheric pressure was around 90 times as high as terrestrial sea-level pressure. Then Venera fell silent, its instruments presumably cooked by the intense heat. That the craft survived as long as it did was a testimonial to the increasing sophistication of the Soviet space program. Venera 7 was the 17th Soviet mission to Venus.* Although the last three probes were on target, deployed parachutes...
...Only four U.S. unmanned shots, all of them flybys, have been sent to Venus...