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Word: dentata (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Lovis Corinth's Temptation of Saint Anthony. Exotic suggestions of bestiality (as with Salammbo) provided another popular theme. Arthur Wardle's Bacchante cavorts with a whole herd of amorous leopards, and Frederick Stuart Church's Enchantress strolls through the wilderness with two tigers "whose growling jaws suggested the vagina dentata which turn-of-the-century men feared they might find hidden beneath this . . . beauty's decorous gown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Self-Indulgences Idols of Perversity | 3/2/1987 | See Source »

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