Word: venus
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Marlowe’s script adheres closely to Virgil’s original text in the Aeneid, beginning with the political and sexual squabbles of the Olympian gods in the aftermath of the Trojan War, in which Venus, mother of Aeneas, favored the Trojans while Juno aided the Greeks...
Hearing that they “were leaving Venus, and still [they] stood tall,” Quincy rallied from being several dodgeballers down against Lowell—Kirshner’s Kidz only had two hurlers left at one point—in the semifinals, then crushed the freshmen from Elm Yard in the championship, then listened to “The Final Countdown.” Again...
...Harvard professor with a passion for studying everyday phenomena, including how worms wriggle, flags flap, and skin shrivels, has co-authored a report research explaining how the Venus flytrap is able to snap shut almost instantaneously...
...When the water moves, it changes the curvature in the leaf in one direction that causes it to flip like a tennis ball or a contact lens,” said Mahadevan, whose first Venus flytrap came in 2002 as a gift from Dumais, who was then a post-doctoral student in Mahadevan?...
Piano and Foster have been building tall for much of their careers, but until recently many of the others worked closer to the ground. Gehry's Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, reclines like Venus on her couch. Calatrava's Olympic Stadium in Athens, seen by billions on television during last summer's Games, is a voluptuous, low-slung bowl. But in recent years, even these architects have been moving into the vertical mode, taking their mambo wiggles and thunderbolts with them. The square-shouldered glass-and-steel boxes of Modernism are giving way to silhouettes that once seemed inconceivable...