Word: gores
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...three songs in the Leslie Gore "Judy" trilogy: "Needles and Pins," "Whips," and "Chains...
...Diary dissected the female psyche; in Los Angeles. Born in Paris to musician parents, Nin began her diary at age eleven when her father deserted the family. She later wrote about artistic life in the '30s and '40s, penning vivid portraits of such novelists as Lawrence Durrell, Gore Vidal and her longtime friend Henry Miller...
...stocky, naked Susanna writhes as if in pain from the oppressive, whispering conclave above her; the picture is about impending rape, a common subject, but unique in being perceived from the woman's eyeline. Heavily influenced by Caravaggio, Gentileschi's paintings were determinedly "unfeminine," full of darkness, gore and gesticulation: witness the candlelit hand and shadowed face of Judith, like a waning moon, in Judith and Maidservant with the Head of Holofernes (circa 1625). A few other late-Renaissance women, like Sofonisba Anguissola, got more commissions than the forthright Artemisia; they moved with more ease at court...
...script and the promise of 10% of the gross, says that all he wants is to get his name taken off the title. Guccione will do that-if Vidal will give up his 10% and the possibility of a multimillion-dollar windfall. Your move, Gore...
...Gore Vidal. A witty poison-pen card to the U.S. on its Bicentennial, this travelogue through America in midpassage concentrates on the crimes, high and low, of robber barons and burglar-politicians...