Word: nudes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
City College's student publications thereupon published belated reviews of this book. Chapter titles: "A Platonic Kiss," "A Siren's Boudoir," "A Mistress Dissatisfied." Its big scene: a nude woman, lying on a couch of black velvet, seducing the hero: " 'You hold yourself in control like a bloodhound in leash,' she said with a provocative movement of her lips. . . . Flushed, panting, in a frenzy of passion, she clung to him, kissing him with avid lips, aroused to wild lubricity. 'Beat me if you like,' she cried, 'strike me, crush me. I crave violence...
...Kennedy, Mrs. Kennedy and eight young Kennedys; British Secretary of State for Scotland Walter Elliott (served every morning by a procession of hotel servants bringing his breakfast, hot water, clean towels); white-trousered Cinemactress Marlene Dietrich; the Duke & Duchess of Windsor. No French gendarmes watched this year to arrest nude bathers, since business-hungry hotel proprietors had persuaded the police to disregard such trifles as strapless bathing suits...
...best of all is the smoldering, velvet-voiced, wanton-mouthed femme fatale of Algiers, black-haired, hazel-eyed Viennese Actress Hedy Kiesler (Hollywood name: Hedy Lamarr). Her coming may well presage a renewal of the sultry cinema of Garbo and Dietrich. Hedy has been chiefly famous for her appearance, nude, in the Czechoslovakian film Extase, produced in 1933 by young Director Gustav Machaty as "a sermon in eugenics," exploited wherever U. S. cinema censors permitted, a picture which had one exquisitely played, if adulterous, moment of passion...
Nicole (Danielle Darrieux), a job-seeking model, is assigned to pose for semi-nude photographs. She goes to the wrong address, starts to undress in the office of a cynical young businessman (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.), who not unnaturally supposes that she has selected him as the victim of some sort of racket. Disgusted with modelling, Nicole, abetted by an ex-chorus girl (Helen Broderick) and a parsimonious headwaiter (Mischa Auer), next risks the headwaiter's savings on a frantic effort to find herself a rich fiance. Unfortunately, no sooner does she find what looks like a good prospect than...
...last year's show, New York carried off most of the honors, this time with a soft-textured nude by George Grosz, a characteristic frozen-faced, deep green Landscape with Fisherman by Doris Lee, Isaac Soyer's indulgent School Girls and Robert Philipp's Dust to Dust, which won honorable mention at the Carnegie International last autumn (TIME, Oct. 25), showing bowed, blackrobed, firmly painted figures before an open grave, against a dull rainscape. There was no outstanding piece of sculpture like Carl Hallsthammar's Venus in Red Cherry of last year, but the exhibition introduced...