Word: nudeness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Spat. In San Antonio, Detective D. E. Kelly was out of a job after ignoring reports that a nude man was dragging a nude woman across the street; Kelly explained that he figured it was just "a lovers' quarrel...
...shows, flower, dog, cat, cattle and horse shows, and at a bulletproof Mercédès-Benz limousine billed as "Hitler's Car." Then they trudged on to look at the latest developments in trains and television. They walked for miles-from a well-advertised Art Gallery nude to the Men's Tea-Making Contest...
...been 23 years since Poet Andre Breton rattled the saucers in Left Bank cafes with his "First Manifesto of Surrealism," a compound of Freudianism and calculated nonsense. In those days, Marcel Duchamp (who drew U.S. catcalls in 1913 with his Nude Descending the Staircase) got high critical acclaim when he filled a birdcage full of marble cubes, stuck in a thermometer, and entitled it Why Not Sneeze? Duchamp and Breton had worked together for months assembling the screwy props for last week's screwy show...
This Year's Model. In Edinburgh, Scotland, an official of the College of Art explained why this spring's exhibition offered far fewer nude paintings: last winter's coal shortage discouraged models from posing...
Outside, someone pushed a .30 caliber carbine through a rose trellis, drew a careful bead, put two shots into Bugsy's head, two into his body. A shot that went wild lodged in an oil painting of a nude woman, holding a wine glass...