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...Martha's Vineyard. On a sunny Saturday the secluded dunes on Free Beach in Truro, Mass., reveal 500 bare beach bunnies of all ages. Defying the garment industry, New York vestiphobes invade Jones Beach early weekday mornings and shed their clothes. Every summer brings a flurry of nude bathing, but this year more Americans than ever, it seems, are stripping down for a gymnophiliac season...
...Brooklyn, N.Y., Federal Magistrate Vincent Catoggio had another opinion. "I don't know where these people get the idea they have a constitutional right to strip naked and parade in front of other people," he said, then set bail on a man who had been seized in the nude at Jacob Riis Park beach in Queens...
...nation's leading researcher and writer in exobiology the study of extraterrestrial life. A former Harvard astronomer, he has helped develop models for the atmospheres of other planets and for the conditions on primitive earth. He and a Cornell colleague created the celebrated "extraterrestrial message," showing a nude man and woman along with mathematical and astronomical symbols, that rode out of the solar system aboard Pioneer...
...work, organized by the French Ministry of Cultural Affairs at the Grand Palais (through Oct. 13), is for all practical purposes definitive. It contains some 350 works, including last year's sculptures and beginning with early cubist-influenced paintings. One striking example is the superb Nude with a Mirror-solid as a column with those interlocking planes of pink flesh, the Khmer eyes, the thick hawser of plaited hair, and perched on a hassock whose needlepoint butterfly sums up Miró's pleasure in decorative enumeration...
...nudity and sex then, only reinforce this theme, for "anything goes" in the hero's view. The label of "gross and lewd" seems a misnomer to the almost visually boring scene of a girl strapped nude to a chair for twenty long minutes. The sexual act itself is performed so perfunctorily (in a record 27 seconds in one showing) that those titillated couldn't have progressed beyond what the hero remembers as his own eighth grade attitude towards sex: getting off on National Geographic pics of naked African women...