Word: beggar
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Scholars always warn that we should not look at 19th century images through modern eyes, finding sex where the Victorians saw only creamy innocence. But however you might describe Carroll's famous picture of Alice, 7, costumed as a sultry beggar girl, girlish is not the word. Her liquid posture, that off-the-shoulder dress, the frank suction of her gaze--innocence this luscious could almost have an R rating. From here to the foxy cowgirl outfits of JonBenet Ramsey isn't a stretch. While Prose doubts that Carroll was an active pedophile, she does not deny the erotic longing...
...more traditionally conceived characterizations are particularly well rendered: the Anthony of Matthew V. Anderson ’03 and the Beggar Woman of Catherine B. Gowl...
...cash in your pocket is for groceries and train tickets, for a schoolchild's spending money or a handout to a beggar. It gets rolled up for snorting drugs, or lost for years under sofa cushions. Shop clerks and bank tellers at the end of the day have to scrub off the black grime money imparts to their hands. But last week, when 12 European nations rolled out the single currency euro notes and coins, those intrinsically cheap little tokens - inoffensively illustrated with maps or imaginary monuments - managed to make Europeans feel they were part of something rather grand. Maybe...
...marries a low-caste woman and forfeits his social standing. He is a maharaja's tax clerk who, influenced by Gandhi's politics of poverty, makes false account entries in favor of poor landowners. Unwelcome at home and in danger of prosecution, the upstart takes cover as a mute beggar. A touring W. Somerset Maugham is impressed by this bogus act of mystical piety and is inspired to write his best selling novel, The Razor's Edge. The faker becomes a celebrity and names his son Willie Somerset Chandran...
...didn’t know the language. I had no shoes,” the 80-year-old Korean told the audience through an interpreter, recalling her time in China after being freed from the Japanese. “For the next several months, I lived like a beggar...