Muses "music", and "musing upon". In current literature, the influential role that the Muse plays has been extended to the political sphere. In "Down to Earth", the Muses, espcially Terpsichore (Rita Hayworth), are offended by a vulgar Broadway musical called "Hot Muses", in which they are portrayed as besotted by two American flyers who crash-land on Parnassus. Terpsichore masquerades as a mortal to get the show "improved". All nine Muses appear in the 1980 film "Xanadu", with actress Olivia Newton-John as Terpsichore. Many of the Greek gods, including five of the Muses (Thalia, Clio, Calliope, Melpomene, and Terpsichore) appear in the
Turkish delight Its name in Greek, λουκούμι ("loukoumi") shares a similar etymology with the modern Turkish and it is marketed as "Greek Delight". In Cyprus, where the dessert has protected geographical indication (PGI), it is also marketed as "Cyprus Delight". In Armenian it is called lokhum (լոխում). Its name in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Israel is "rahat lokum", and derives from a very old confusion of the two Ottoman Turkish names found already in Ottoman Turkish; indeed this mixed name can also be found in Turkey today. Its name in Serbo-Croatian is "ratluk", a reduced form of the same name. In Persian,