Word: harlotization
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...Rome. Following a highly successful run at the British Museum in London, this show brings its ancient treasures and new insights to Chicago's Field Museum. In statuary of the 1st century B.C., Cleopatra is voluptuous but coldly imperial. In pornography produced by her enemies she is a harlot coupling with a crocodile. The Queen arrives in all her guises, including clips from Taylor's 1963 extravaganza, on Oct. 20. More demure female images can be seen in the portraits of Renaissance women in the National Gallery of Art's "Virtue and Beauty," which opens in Washington on Sept...
...contemporary coins, Cleopatra appears masculine and powerful. Slim and serene in sculptures, she is sometimes portrayed as the goddess Isis, the divine, royal mother whose cult she followed. Erotic Roman caricatures depict her as a harlot. She is a sensual and tragic figure in Renaissance paintings and objets d'art. Her modern face comes straight from Hollywood, embodied most famously in 1963 by Elizabeth Taylor-whose off-screen affair with her own Mark Antony, co-star Richard Burton, recalled the 14th century writer Giovanni Boccaccio's description of Cleopatra as a woman "who became an object of gossip...
...Wiesel, as he came to the end of his discourse on the minor prophet Hosea, discussed Maimonides' interpretation of the marry-a-harlot theme. Maimonides, the greatest of Judaism's medieval philosophers, explained the entire business (God's commandment to marry a whore, Hosea's predicament) as a vision, a fiction, a fantasy, a daydream. Maybe so. If only this campaign were merely a daydream, an error of the American psyche, correctable by waking...