Word: nudeness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ended an 18-day trial (TIME, Dec. 1), brought on by a suit filed by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and Bridgewater Superintendent Charles A. Gaughan, among others. In the petition, the state's attorney general, Eliot Richardson, charged that Wiseman invaded the inmates' privacy by photographing them nude during "skin searches" for contraband. Richardson also claimed that he broke an agreement to submit the film for review and approval and assured Bridgewater officials that Titticut was being made only for educational purposes. Instead, Wiseman showed the film at the New York Film Festival last September first. What...
...offending column, written by Flora Lewis, appeared the same day as an unrelated wire service story reporting that Wilson had won an out-of-court settlement from The Move, a rock 'n' roll group. To promote a new record, the group had circulated a postcard showing Wilson nude on a bed with a woman labeled "Harold's very personal secretary." Wilson won an apology plus more than $30,000, which he donated to charity...
...like some anchoritic lama at his prayer wheel," says the piece, "the moviemaker imagines the medium an ideal outlet for free-floating artiness or supererogatory libidinousness. There was in fact at least one instance in which a director became so enamored of his leading lady that he wrote a nude love scene into the script and then played the male lead himself: ars gratia concupiscentis...
Bike Boy, The Nude Restaurant, and other 1967 films by Andy Warhol. There is a sublime moment in The Nude Restaurant where an idealistic peace-nik turns to the magnificent Taylor Mead and says, "All war protestors are beautiful." Mead, who thinks of war protestors as so many warm male bodies, grains at the camera and says, "Not necessarily." The double-meaning here is central to Warhol's cinema, as it reveals the ease with which two people can escape one another completely. In Warhol's films, people talk at one another, strive for self-definition and expression...
...serious story began to unfold on TV screens in front of them. The central figure. Thomas Kidwell, 47, had already been convicted of the murder of his promiscuous wife-although he could not remember much about what had happened before he was found in his wrecked car with her nude body on the floor...