Word: nakedness
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But then there's 1956, and Nasser's nationalization of the Suez Canal, effectively cutting Israel off from a major supply route. Taking this to be an act of war, Israel crossed the Sinai to free the canal (with American, French, and British help). Clearly, this, too, is blind, naked...
Once the bourgeoisie had decided not to talk about what it did, it created a new symbolic language, both verbal and nonverbal, to convey information. Middle-class women no longer got pregnant, for example; they became enceinte, or were "in an interesting condition." Painters and sculptors thrilled staid merchants with...
His early portraits-whether in pencil, like the exquisite study of Elaine de Kooning, Portrait of Elaine, circa 1940-41, or in oil-thus tended to consolidate an unerring density of structure beneath their tentative-looking, close-toned surfaces; all nuance and doubt on top (often de Kooning, like Arshile...
The park superintendent has made life difficult for today's fence climbers by placing metal screening on the gates in the open space above the locks. But little else has changed in Gramercy Park in the past 25 years. The once titillating statue of the half-naked woman (or...
Christopher "Loin Cloth" Atkins could probably go to the University of California, Berkeley, named by 24 percent of college presidents. Christopher Atkins, we hope you won't recall, stripped for Princeton's Brooke in Blue Lagoon, posed naked with a snake (Nastassia looked better) for a pin-up poster, showed...