Word: bathers
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...Traveling east, the 60-kilometer journey from Dili to Manututo matches any of the world's great coastal drives. The road hugs the limestone cliffs, swooping down to sea level then rising skyward again, where the view of the iridescent blue waters beckons the bather within. Give in to the urge: the water is cool and clean, and the coral a few feet offshore is stunning...
...bathtub, a fine piece of iron work itself, appears not to have been constructed for the use of a sole bather, but is rather a bathtub built for two. With a depth of nearly three feet and a girth of two, we can only imagine what the Puritanical inhabitants of Cambridge were practicing in this space. Looming above the tub, is a bizarre 25 spout water dispersal array which appears to have served as the shower head. Anachronistically placed among this grandeur is a garish post-modern emblem of mass production—a Scott’s hand towel...
...WITH SEXISM, UP WITH PLEASURE, while men strutted along the shore wearing women's bikini tops. After three days of ridicule, Rio's Mayor Luiz Paulo Conde relented and declared that the immorality law would no longer be enforced. "This is going to be the summer of the topless bather," Conde promised, despite grumbles from Brazil's powerful Roman Catholic Church. "The human body is sacred," argued Eugenio Cardinal Sales, Archbishop of Rio. "We cannot expose it for the purpose...
...quick walk-through of Holworthy and Thayer revealed nothing but one late-night bather taking a shower in a common bathroom...
...without "academic" preconceptions is strictly for the birds in the sunlit trees. What's wrong with the name Impressionism is that it suggests quick shots of fleeting things. Yet the main progenitor of New Painting was the most solid, stubborn and material painter imaginable, Gustave Courbet. A Renoir like Bather with a Terrier, 1870, could hardly exist without the example of Courbet's wardrobe nudes. Courbet was the doubting Thomas of painting, the great empiricist who wanted to verify everything by touch, and his influence pervades Manet's work as well...