Word: nudeness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tragic Timetable. Back home?it was now after midnight?Whitman stabbed his wife three times in the chest, apparently as she lay sleeping, and drew the bed sheet over her nude body. Then he returned to the note?partially typewritten, partially handwritten, partially printed?that was to be his valedictory. Included was a tragic timetable: "12:30 a.m.?Mother already dead. 3 o'clock?both dead." He hated his father "with a mortal passion," he wrote, and regretted that his mother had given "the best 25 years of her life to that man." Clearly, the erratic orbit...
...domain as a comedienne, and her partner in crime on this elegant occasion is Peter O'Toole, also treading very lightly as a debonair art-world detective whom Audrey has mistaken for a fellow burglar. Together they hurdle a large chunk of plot by stealing a marble Cellini nude from a Paris art museum, armed only with a magnet, a boomerang and a mop bucket...
...worth of phony masterworks, especially commissioned to help Director William Wyler (The Collector) fashion this meticulous high comedy about ars graftia artis. Among the other experts at hand are Art Dealer Charles Boyer and a frenzied connoisseur (Eli Wallach) who yearns to whisk both Audrey and the nude Cellini back to his Stateside lair...
Certainly the high life at home seems varied enough, what with nude swimming, hot summer nights at the Moon Lake Casino, and Kay Francis movies at the Delta Brilliant Theater. Added excitement turns up, though, in the person of Robert Redford, exuding chin-out charm as a railroad troubleshooter who comes to town with enough pink dismissal slips to put most of Mama's boarders on relief. Ultimately, Alva follows her lover-man to the Big City where she tries both streetwalking and light housekeeping with Redford before fleeing into a rainstorm one wretched night to catch a fatal...
...major preoccupation of modern sculptors has been, in effect, beating Rodin shapeless. The nude ballooned and blimped at the hands of Gaston Lachaise; man shrank under the chisel of Giacometti as if roasted overnight; Henry Moore punched holes through their stomachs. The products were monumental, surrealistic, but withal still related to the human figure. Somebody was bound to get tired of doing...