Word: nakedness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Finally, why are these periodic charades involving contras and apartheid apologists staged in the first place? It would be a crimson naivete to believe that these events are organized for the intellectual edification of the campus community. The constitution of the audience alone will testify to the fact that they...
Great players such as Mickey Mantle have written autobiographies detailing drunken debauchery so disgusting that they cannot help but attribute their "successes" in the saloon to the same prowess that makes them winning athletes. Sparky Lyle, in The Bronx Zoo, uses the same tone of excitement to describe big strikeouts...
After several neutral slides, Elvis showed what he described as "a naked woman." Yet this woman was not merely naked, she was blind-folded, faceless, dehumanized, reduced to a body. It was the most typical pornography, an invitation to regard women as objects.
The natural and dreadful culmination of Elvis' attitude towards women came in his final slide, a cartoon of a naked woman pinned under a clothed man. None of her limbs were free; she was helpless. The scene looked, in fact, like a rape. Above this rape a sign bore the...
But elsewhere, Updike displays the shapeliness and poetic perception that make him a master of this demanding form. More Stately Mansions is balanced on two provocative images, a cross section of a nautilus shell and a big Victorian house, "with all its rooms and this naked freckled woman waiting in...