Word: nude
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then Sergei found that his wife Natasha was being kept nude in a Nazi soldier's brothel. He and Fyodor rushed the brothel, were stopped by a sentry. They "looped a wire around his neck." Sergei found Natasha with a German officer. He fired. In an instant "she came leaping over the body" into Sergei's arms. Soon they were safe in a snow hut built by Sergei. Fyodor's face was "placid." He was dead...
...Biddle panel showed an awesome skeleton astride a bony steed skimming over burning Brazilian villages. The other depicted a peaceful landscape wherein a big-busted nude descended from the clouds toward three nude men, a woman and a child (see cut). Said tweedy Artist Biddle...
...girls each week-and kidded the scanty pants off them. A movie starlet with a guitar was merely "what you are not likely to find in the South Sea Islands." Another leggy gal "just happened to fit in this space." Readers were warned of a classy near-nude: "This girl can take care of her own tactical situation...
...most horrible things I've ever seen." Said Bishop James Cannon Jr. in the Richmond Times-Dispatch: "The woman's back and hips are poorly portrayed." Said Artist Binford: "When and how did this bishop become an authority on the 'backs and hips' of nude women? Scat, Bishop! Get off my scaffold. I am not trying to swarm your pulpit." Result: his mural is still in the sketch stage...
...represented by 22 canvases. Only the most fanatical Corot connoisseurs will recognize in these masterpieces the painter of so many gloomy women (The Pensive Muse, The Pensive Woman, The Gypsy with the Basque Drum), so many prancing nymphs and paintings like The Bacchante and the Panther, in which a nude woman holds up a dead bird to a panther ridden by a nude cherub...