Word: nakedness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The sections on him and Shultz "aren't findings. They are just conclusions and statements. They're totally unsupported by any evidence or any findings. They're just, as we used to say in the law, naked conclusion," Weinberger said.
As the priestess Salammbo danced to the seductive warbling of a flute, her long white dress slowly fell to the ground, and she stood naked before the sacred python. Taking the serpent in her arms, she "wound it round her waist, under her arms, between her knees . . . Salammbo gasped beneath...
The novelty in Dijkstra's approach is that he has illustrated his tour through fin-de-siecle fantasy not only with such masters as Degas or Klimt but with more than 300 of the new photographic reproductions that were spreading art's pernicious messages through popular magazines. Hypocrisy was the...
On the table Moses demonstrated how the rhinoceros thinks. He used the saltshaker to represent the American visitor. The pepper shaker would be the rhino. The sugar bowl would be the boulder that stood between them. "Be careful," Moses warned. He moved the rhino in an ominous drift to its...
Llewelyn Powys, a young English poet, came out to settle in Kenya early in the century. He wrote that Africa was a "country frequented by clawed creatures with striped and gilded pelts, where nettles sting like wasps and even moles are as large as water-rats . . . The sun, naked as...