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...clumsy 19th century attempt at pornography, b) a rather silly self-indulgence by Gustave Flaubert, c) a shocking specimen of male chauvinism, d) all of the above or e) none of the above? Skeptical common sense suggests that the best answer would be b or perhaps d. To Bram Dijkstra, an erudite and passionately indignant professor of comparative literature at the University of California at San Diego, the only answer is c. In case anyone thinks he is making too much of Salammbo's gyrations, Dijkstra wants us to know that a painting of the priestess by Charles Allen Winter...
...Dijkstra's thesis is a familiar feminist argument: that the 19th century man wanted women to remain passive, dependent, domestic and obedient, and that any female who ventured to differ was regarded as at best a shrew and at worst a witch or even a vampire. He buttresses this argument with evidence from both high culture and high camp. He decries Henry James' Verena Tarrant (in The Bostonians) and Tennyson's Lady of Shalott for their dim-witted self- sacrifice, and he manages to get angry about even such endearing targets as Dracula and Trilby...
...novelty in Dijkstra's approach is that he has illustrated his tour through fin-de-siecle fantasy not only with such masters as Degas or Klimt but with more than 300 of the new photographic reproductions that were spreading art's pernicious messages through popular magazines. Hypocrisy was the order of the day. Thus Albert von Keller's lubricious portrait of a naked woman crucified bears the pious title Martyr, and all those nude beauties frolicking around that white-bearded codger represent Lovis Corinth's Temptation of Saint Anthony. Exotic suggestions of bestiality (as with Salammbo) provided another popular theme...
HOLIDAY ON ICE (ABC, 7-8 p.m.). Jonathan Winters hosts the ice-travaganza featuring such figure-skating champions as The Netherlands' Sjoukje Dijkstra and Germany's Marika Kilius and Hans-Jurgen Baumler. From Frankfurt's Festhalle...
...years, the freckled blonde from Hans Brinkerland has been dazzling European fans with her silver skates. Now American audiences will have a chance to see the twisting double axels, flying camels, and sizzling sit-spins that have made The Netherlands Sjoulcje Dijkstra (pronounced Shaw-keya Dike-stra), 22, European, world and Olympic champion. Outdistancing Sonja Henie as the world's most highly paid winterland performer, Sjoukje signed a two-year contract with the U.S.'s Holiday on Ice show for a reported $50,000 to $90,000 a year, a fancy figure that, if she likes to wear...