Word: breasted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with considerable tenderness, and over the years Wesselmann has tended to move even closer to his subject. Early paintings depict her in full. Later (often shaped) canvases zero in on specific portions of the anatomy: feet that rise like mountains above the seashore, mouths dragging at enormous cigarettes, huge breast. Yet, explicit though the images are, Wesselmann's nudes are not pornographic. They are too remote for that, too glazed, too impersonal. They could be legendary divorcees, airline stewardesses or Candys who spend all lay on the beach and all night in a motel room. It is hard...
...hopes that the talk about violence and American character is the start of a period of national introspection but fears that it is mere breast-beating, soothing us in a painful moment of national self-recognition and easing the transition to normalcy, where the National Rifle Association has more to say than the overwhelming majority of Americans about our gun laws...
...hard ground, sounds the same blast about the Negro's condition, rattles the same rationale for homosexuality: "My terrible need to lie down, to breathe deep, to weep long and loud, to be held in human arms, almost any human arms, to hide my face in any human breast, to tell it all, to let it out, to be brought into the world, and, out of human affection, to be born again...
...Congolese sorcerers in the 1964 Simba uprising, when U.S. aircraft dropped Belgian paratroopers to rescue foreign hostages in Stanleyville. Dawa (magic) concocted by tribal witch doctors induced Simba warriors to believe that enemy bullets turned to water; their morale crumpled after Mama Onema, a crotchety hag with one pendulous breast, threatened to turn her fetishes against the rebels...
...matter to most Frenchman that abroad, De Gaulle kept Britain out of Europe, did his annoying best to thwart the U.S., meddled in Quebec and increasingly behaved like a cantankerous old man. There is a little of Napoleon in every French breast, and the nation took a certain pride in De Gaulle's ability to command far more attention for France than its power and resources deserved...