Word: clothing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Venus, the first posthumous volume of Anais Nin's erotic writing. The paperback edition has gone through four printings, and Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, knowing a good thing when they see it, have recently brought out a second volume, beautifully printed as the first and likewise bound in real cloth--quite a tribute these days, especially for stories originally written for an anonymous dirty old man at a dollar a page...
Long, long ago, legend has it, the demigod Maui became incensed with the sun. It passed too swiftly over his Hawaiian island, leaving little time for fruits to ripen or womenfolk to dry their tapa cloth. So, with a web of 16 ropes, Maui lassoed the sun. "Give me my life," pleaded Sol. "I will," replied the demigod, "if you promise to move more slowly across our sky." The sun consented, and to this day, islanders swear, its arc is longer, its rays more generous than anywhere else on earth. And ever since, Maui's mighty volcano has been...
...Bangkok said that China had launched a series of air strikes against military depots near Haiphong, where Soviet ships were unloading supplies. Officials in Peking and Washington discredited the report within hours, but not before it had hit front pages around the world and had thus been woven whole cloth into the war's tapestry of mystification and misinformation...
...economic mission, was a sentimental journey for Blumenthal. He lived in Shanghai as a refugee from Nazi Germany from 1939 to 1947, much of the time inside the European ghetto, twelve blocks long by five blocks wide, where his father was unable to find work and his mother sold cloth to dressmakers. "It was like the wild West, except that it was East. There were dog races, horse races, gangsters, pimps and whores. Americans were all but immune from the law. It was a cosmopolitan place, where you could buy and sell anything if you had the money." Blumenthal lived...
...level, Magritte's art produced some of the most disturbing images of alienation and fear in the lexicon of modern art. There is no more chilling icon of the failures of sexual communication than The Lovers, 1928, with two anonymous (but inescapably similar) heads kissing through their gray cloth integuments. Nor are there many paintings that sum up the pathos of fetishism-the substitution of a symbolic part for the desired whole-more acutely than In Memoriam Mack Sennett, 1936, in which a woman's negligee, hanging on its own in a closet, has developed a forlornly luminous...