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...they can be, but not very often. A peculiar case in point is After Rodin, one of the recent pastel drawings of a nude woman sprawled on her back, rosy, firm and decapitated. To what does this repugnant, though not very gory, piece of sadism owe its title? On the face of it, to Rodin's fondness for making fragmentary figures, headless torsos, isolated arms or legs. But then one is reminded that this, in Rodin's own day, was ceaselessly guyed by satirists as literal mutilation; so much so that during the Turkish atrocities in Armenia...
...over Europe the Germans are famous as nude sun bathers. But at home in their own cities a certain sartorial conservatism has long applied. This summer, though, in the city of Munich, a terrible uproar arose as crowds of young nudists began nonchalantly strolling alongside fully clothed pedestrians in the famous 600-acre Englische Garten. The young strippers quickly became a major tourist attraction, even threatening to rival the rosy Rubens nudes in the city's Alte Pinakothek. But the burghers of Munich were not amused...
These goings-on, or takings-off, stirred the wrath of an archdiocesan layman's group. In an irate open letter to Lord Mayor Erich Kiesl that drew banner headlines in Munich, the Catholic association declared: "The many nude people in the garden disturb and offend those decent citizens who want to use it for recreational purposes." Many citizens agreed. Asked Housewife Ingrid Steinberger: "Why should I be forced to look at naked behinds?" The letter also threatened vigilante action if the police refused to take steps. Equally outraged, though not notably logical, the forces of nudity argued back. Asked...
JOHN DEREK HAS nude pictures of his wife for sale. He doesn't keep them pinned to the inside of a greasy raincoat or anything, and you don't have to go down to the Combat Zone to see them. Just ask him--he's got a million, and he'll be glad to show them...
...seems the Pontiff will be denied that opportunity. And generations of aging boys, who recall Maureen O'Sullivan's nude swimming scene in the 1934 Tarzan and His Mate, will be forced to make do with a little Bo peek. Meanwhile Hollywood is happy to have another scandale on its hands. "Well, well, well," drawled one director working on the MGM lot, " Junglegate.'' -By Richard Corliss. Reported by Dean Brelis/New York and Elaine Dutka/Los Angeles