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...park attempts to re-create the spirit of the Butterfield stagecoach days with hay rides, an old-fashioned swimming hole, community cookouts and country-music shows. The focal point is an old Wild West village; on Sunday, church services are held in the Jemu saloon, with the obligatory nude paintings over the bar turned toward the wall...
...affaire Bruay began one early afternoon in April 1972 when a group of teen-agers kicking a soccer ball around an empty lot discovered the nude, mutilated body of Brigitte Dewèvre, a 16-year-old schoolgirl whose father is a miner. The investigation began routinely enough, with police looking for a "tall, strongly built man wearing a turtle neck" who had been seen with the girl the day before she died. But then one witness claimed that she had seen a wealthy Bruay notary (in France, a kind of real-estate lawyer) named Pierre Leroy parking...
...pictures in which Hodler placed most pride are his large, carefully structured nude groups. These include consciously symbolist works with titles like Night, Day, Love and Truth. Carefully composed and painted, these are likely to strike us now as overly flat and academic. The symbolist aura of the time when they were painted has faded, and the preliminary sketches appeal much more than the stiff finished paintings...
...saying more than a swift reading of the action would deliver. "The Four Alarms"--the first story in the book, and one of the cleverest--tells about a fairly young suburban housewife who tires of teaching and goes into theatrics, and winds up acting in a circa '69 nude play (Ozamanides II). "Oh, I'm so happy," she says when she gets the part. "Oh, how wonderful and rich and strange life can be when you stop playing out the roles that your parents wrote out for you." But there is more than a bemused, detached, exact satire...
...Tarzan, you Raphael. Dubuffet's art speaks directly to anyone who wants to abolish the humanist past-that area of art that insists that man is the flower of the universe and can, by force and subtlety of intellect, control it. His images assert the opposite: a nude becomes a lump of hairy pink clay with a pinhead, swagging numbles and a skin so gouged by fissures, cracks and graffiti that it is on the verge of turning into a landscape. The hierarchy of human to animal to vegetable to mineral is abolished; the popeyed homunculi who scurry like...