Word: nakedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Twice wed to Diego, Frida Kahlo has often painted herself in the costume you show; but oftener in the sin ropa. Several years ago she presented herself on canvas as a stark naked girl standing in the garden of her family home in Coyoacan-in the outskirts of Mexico City...
I will have all my beds blown up, not stuft: Down is too hard . . . Then, my glasses Cut in more subtle angles, to disperse And multiply the figures, as I walk Naked between my succubae . . . My meat shall all come in, in Indian shells, Dishes of agat set in gold...
2) The Naked City (Mark Bellinger; Universal-International)
The characters of The Naked and the Dead are the members of a platoon, six of them survivors of a rubber-boat disaster at Motome, wearied, embittered, haunted by a premonition of death, snarling about the newcomers and (occasionally) feeling a grudging responsibility for them, nervous, profane, lecherous. Their conversation...
The Author. Norman Mailer attended public schools in Brooklyn, at Harvard studied engineering, shortly after graduation married Beatrice Silverman (later a lieutenant in the WAVES). During the war he served in Leyte, Luzon and Japan, as a clerk, an aerial photograph expert, a rifleman in a reconnaissance platoon, a cook...