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...their nominal subject. The show features an even balance of color and black-and-white work, and the quality, on the whole, is exceptionally high. The pictures include close-ups of wheels and grilles, views of roadside landscape, several junks and wrecks, a couple of corpses, and one female nude. The photographers, most of them not widely known, have been adroit in capturing the absurdity and the glamor of the automobile, its allure as an emblem of commercialism, transience and sex, but the show's interest as a sociological record is overwhelmed by the force, wit and elegance of individual...
...show, which moves to Buffalo's Albright-Knox Art Gallery in June, supports this notion, embracing as it does nearly every period in Miró's long career (he was 87 last week). The angular planes of Standing Nude, 1918, for example, show that the young goldsmith's son, painting in Barcelona, had already studied reproductions of the works of the cubists in Paris. Because of World War I, Miró could not get to Paris himself until 1919. By then he was 26 and a determined individualist: he remained very much the hedgehog (who knew...
This largely buried argument is all that connects the book's welter of anecdotes. A Chicago teen-ager named Harold Rubin is limned practicing self-abuse over photographs of nude women. He is joined in the narrative by the newly married Hugh Hefner, who wanders the streets and gazes at apartment windows where women might appear. Hefner makes room later for John Bullaro, a married Los Angeles insurance executive who bicycles to Venice Beach on Sundays to ogle sunbathers...
...perhaps nothing less than "the redefinition of morality in America." An indefatigable reporter, Talese plunged into the world of commercial sex, not just patronizing massage parlors but also managing two of them. He saw "numerous" X-rated films, did research at topless bars, crisscrossed the country in search of nude encounter groups. His work attracted snickering publicity, strained his marriage and caused him to miss his deadline by five years...
...long last Talese has got his story into print, and it certainly answers thousands of questions. How, for instance, did Nude Model Diane Webber's great-great-grandmother die? (An Indian shot her in the back.) Did General Custer carry life insurance into the battle of Little Big Horn? (Yes, a $5,000 policy with New York Life.) What covered the circular bed in Hugh Hefner's private DC-9? (A coverlet made of Tasmanian opossum...