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...ancient Indian loincloth and consists of two minuscule triangles of cloth joined by a cord over either hip. The Tanga is a huge hit with Rio girl watchers because it bares a large part of the derriere-Brazilian males tend to be nádega (buttock) rather than peito (breast) admirers. The String spread to Italy a while ago, and now it is having its first tanga north of the border...
Come on, America! Why this constant introverted breast-beating about a national peccadillo? I suppose that it is your Puritan upbringing...
...given' in De Kooning's art, allowing the artist to proceed immediately to the essential business of making a picture." The Women series, as the drawing made circa 1952 immediately makes clear, contained that private neurological signature known as style: the capacious, whipping curves of breast and thigh, the brisk L of the arm responding to the angles of the chair legs, the shallow, vigorous flurry of space and line around the vestiges of a head. With De Kooning, the energy and propulsion of the line tend to abolish the usual distinctions between painting and drawing; line turns...
Beyond such essentially show business concerns, Caldwell was operating on the premise that beneath the breast of the war horse beats the heart of a thoroughbred. The Barber ranks as a 19th century buffa masterpiece because its music is so innately ingratiating and so illustrative of both character and comic situation. Figaro's patter aria Largo al factotum ("Feeegaro! Feeegaro!") quickly defines him as one of the most likable hustlers in all opera. Rosina's Una voce poco fa is a song of such poise and bravura style as to remove all doubt that she will...
...Roth determination not to repeat himself is becoming, in fact, his most famous and only predictable trait. The writer who went from Portnoy's Complaint to political satire (Our Gang), and thence to Kafkaesque fantasy (The Breast) is now so impatient that he cannot even wait to complete this book before trying to reconstruct himself. In My Life as a Man, he switches persona in mid-volume. The result is superb as a performance and uneven as a book (or rather, two books). It leads, finally, to some questions. Does a kind of bravura restlessness now not only characterize...