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...active revolutionary who later wielded tremendous power as official painter to Napoleon, a classicist able to bend Greco-Roman ideals to the service of French patriotism, David embodied the contradictions of the century. More important, his gruesomely vivid portrait of the assassinated revolutionist Jean-Paul Marat dying in a bathtub established him as the first artist to make painting relevant to real and immediate events destined for history. "The father of the entire modern school," Delacroix called...
...their fellow scientists, show up the puerile nihilism and obscenity, the physical and mental shabbiness of our youthful dropouts like a bright light in a dank dungeon. Any hippie, yippie, card burner or other destructive zealot who reads your article and doesn't drop in to 1) a bathtub, 2) a barber shop and 3) an employment office, must be completely devoid of imagination and vision...
...celebrated Godardian resonance. There are no impalements of the future, as in Alphaville or Weekend, nor is there much of the mordant social satire of La Chinoise or Les Carabineers. Godard himself feels that the film is merely "life filling the screen as a tap fills a bathtub that is simultaneously emptying at the same rate...
...trouble," Hal said, "When I had a freshman Cliffie trying to describe pictures of the reproductory system 'o me," Hal admits that some credit for passing the course must be given to the final paper he wrote on the vocalizations of the Great Apes. Standing in a bathtub (to get the right reverberations) Hal and his father recorded sounds made by the orangutan and the chimpanzee. Hall is particularly proud of his reproduction of the copulation call of the female gibbon--he feels it was his masterpiece...
TECHNOLOGY has devised a new nudity. No starlet could half-hide under bubbles in Babette Newburger's clear blown Plexiglas bathtub. The tub stands on four carved Plexiglas human legs at the Contemporary Crafts' Plastic as Plastic exhibit, which is the most gleamingly contemporary and pertinent of any in New York...