Word: nude
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...artist's model, but my terms-about $3,750 an hour-are prohibitive." Answered Woolf: "Your price for posing is acceptable to me.My price for a drawing is the same amount. . . ." He got the interview-a barrage of economics, socialism, religion, art, plus a confidential glimpse of a nude photograph which Shaw had had taken of himself in the pose of Rodin's The Thinker. The Times asked him to write...
...which Sinclair has plenty. The '20s were a crazy, tragicomic incubator of a catastrophic future. Sinclair makes that, and the grim lines which sharpen their terrible convergence a few years later, perfectly clear. He also makes his whole 859-page canvas as shamelessly ingratiating as a barroom nude...
...state of the world. Even George Rock's "Sad Scene", almost a line exception, seems merely a tour de force. F. F. A. Bruck's caricature and John Holabrid's two watercolors are particularly happy, and done in a fresh manner. Howard Turner's watercolor "Manhattan" together with his "Nude"--a sharp study done with a minimum of line--combine to make his probably the best and most original contribution to the show...
...Mayer and Joseph Burstyn release) arrived in the U. S. following its tail. Produced during the heyday of the French cinema four years ago, it sired a Hollywood duplicate, Algiers, which finally wakened cinemaddicts to further charms of Hedy Lamarr, who, as Hedy Kiesler, had audiences gulping at her nude prancing and purple passion in the foreign-made Ecstasy...
...story is about life as Carson McCullers sees fit to create it in a Southern Army camp, and is almost desperately psychomedical. Within its 183 pages a child is born (some of whose fingers are grown together), an Army captain suffers from bisexual impotence, a half-witted private rides nude in the woods, a stallion is tortured, a murder is done, a heartbroken wife cuts off her nipples with garden shears...