Word: nude
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...left. In the midst of one performance of the theater-of-violence satire Roda Viva, a whistle blew and men armed with clubs, pistols and boxing gloves rose on signal, smashed chairs, cudgeled the audience and actors, ripped up the scenery, stripped the leading lady and sent her scurrying nude into the street...
...France's Grand Dada of art, whose iconoclastic paintings, "readymades" and other assemblages of the early 1900s became cryptic formulas for the future; in Neuilly, France. "An explosion in a shingle factory!" hooted a critic, and guards had to restrain angry art lovers when Duchamp's disjointed Nude Descending a Staircase went on view at Manhattan's 1913 Armory Show. The gaunt, enigmatic Frenchman proceeded to thumb his nose all the more vigorously at the pantheon of art. He painted a mustache and goatee on a Mona Lisa reproduction, put his own portrait on a perfume bottle...
...Democrats, Billy has seldom seen Hubert Humphrey since their first unlikely meeting in 1945 when "we were both swimming nude at the Y.M.C.A. in Minneapolis." Humphrey was running for mayor and, Graham recalls, joked that "I want you to vote for me some day." It may not be this year. "I haven't even told my wife," says Billy. "I'm sure she suspects whom I'd vote for, but I haven't told...
When was it discovered? How did it get into the trunk? Why is there a nude man lying in the fields? Does anyone know the woman in the picture? Did the perpetrator leave any other clues behind...
...America since Tom Wolfe and the most unprincipled knave to turn name dropping and voyeurism into a joyous, journalistic living. His detractors appear to be in the minority, however, and to the 30,000 readers who have thus far bought his recent book, Do You Sleep in the Nude?, he is a fascinating gossip who has recast the interview format in his own bitchy image. Son of a Texas oil-company supervisor, Reed spent his formative years in the South traveling from oil boom to oil boom (13 schools, straight A's, a degree in journalism from Louisiana State...