Word: nudeness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...S.P.C.A. hauled a cootch dancer known as Zorita into a Manhattan court for cruelty to animals. The charge: that she put Scotch Tape over the jaws of an 8-ft. python named Elmer before cavorting in the near-nude with the snake coiled around her torso...
...hand, the common man may well proceed to great rewards. The chief reward: being safe from snubs. Author Fenwick deplores "fake fireplaces filled with a fake coal fire, lighted by electricity," deprecates "a shawl on the piano" and " 'popup' cigarette boxes , . . decorated with a scotty or a nude." But she shows that her judgment has less to do with taste than with fashion when she advocates "tables made of old painted tin trays on a modern stretcher base" and "odd saucers of Lowestoft china ... as ashtrays...
...nature trouble him; he uses it, like a seasoned chef making a salad. The fresh green of a hillside, the blue of the Mediterranean, the delicate lilt of a racing horse, the crisp lines of the Eiffel Tower, the smoke of a train or the plump pinkness of a nude are all equally his dish. Crippled with arthritis, he sometimes has to strap his brush to his hand but (like Renoir, who was also arthritic) he permits only pleasure and good taste to appear in his work...
There is also a sequence by Mareel Duchamp derived from his eubistic painting "Nude Descending the Stairway," and Alexander Calder and Dave Diamond have a hand in other portions. The dream I found most interesting, if only for its simple, washroom symbolism, was Mr. Richter's "Nareissus" though to identify oneself with any particular dream is dangerously revealing, I suppose...
...took one heliuva good football game to set the fuse. Then the firecracker burst brilliantly, violently, and briefly. Between halves, the near-nude Indian cheerleaders led their partisans out of the stands to set up a tepoe. A few of the locals offered half-hearted opposition, which resulted in a disruption of the band formations and little else...