Word: necks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from Lucrezia came hip-hugging chiffon pants and matching tops. Not to mention her lattice-ribboned beach dress, designed to be worn over backless bikinis, which may never be boffo in the stores but so captured the fancy of one German male buyer that he craned his neck too far, lost balance and wound up literally rolling in the aisles...
...stood in the basement of the Visual Arts Center watching Mr. Krupsaw post several announcements of his show, a student in the still photography course gasped as he asked, "Is that Warren Krupsaw himself putting up the sign?" At first I thought the student, with turtle-neck sweater and silver-rimmed glasses, was scoffing. But it soon became clear that his remark only reflected the emergence of a Harvard photographic underground, as one of its sub-culture heroes prepared a major exhibition...
...idealization of the self-willed outcast, who is sometimes pressed into exerting an ordering influence on his hopelessly muddled environment. A former freedom fighter in Spain and Ethiopia, for some reason unable to return to his native United States, Blaine has become wary of involvement--"I stick my neck out for nobody"--and is resigned to die in Casablanca - "It's a good place...
Like Male Rockettes. The few girls in the troupe are fetchingly swaddled in neck-length nylons. The men seem to be clad in flesh-colored BVDs on which someone has apparently traced the entire human nervous system. The net effect is rather unhinging, like watching a platoon of nude male Rockettes undergoing surgery...
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo wanted people to look up to his art. He painted his most famous work on ceilings. Venetian by birth and rococo by temperament, the 18th century master loved to loft dangling goddesses, altitudinous angels and rafters of neck-craning cherubs. His specialty, naturally, was clouds, and his best work adorns sundry ceilings from Madrid's royal palace to Wurzburg's bishop's Residenz. Last week Tiepolo unexpectedly raised the roofs in London...