Word: eroticisms
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For five years, a lanky sociologist from Fort Worth named William McLean prowled the boulevards, side streets, courtyards, back alleys and pissoirs of Paris, camera at the ready. Whenever he spotted an erotic representation of the human body or its genitalia, scratched by some anonymous artist in the soft limestone...
The illustrations in McLean's book enforce the point. They indicate an obsession with certain fundamental themes: the phallus, sometimes decorated with wings (an accessory, incidentally, commonly found in ancient Etruscan art); assorted schematic representations of the vulva; and the Valentine heart-a symbol that McLean believes is more...
Believable Appetite. Anne of the Thousand Days, for example, is a costumer's spectacle, filled with wind and hung with tinsel. It is Bujold who renders the erotic appetite of Henry VIII believable. Anne is no standard prima donna marking pentameters until her next big speech. She is a...
Words or Shoes. In recent years, Dine's paintings have grown more lyrical-often downright erotic. A six-week sojourn in London in 1966 produced a series of blithe drawings that limned private parts of the human anatomy rather more explicitly than is customary. Within a few days of...
Antonioni's effort is undercut to an even greater degree by the most inept cast he has ever used. Daria Halprin brings a supremely beautiful body, a maddenigly erotic bearing, and a ridiculously forced monotone to her lead role. Her youth is only physical. She speaks as if reading cue...