Word: nudes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Otto Muller's Standing Nude in Landscape cannot be called cacophonous, but the element of good painting it in fact possesses only makes its faults doubly inexcusable. The figure, standing amidst branches, two of which are her arms, possesses all the spiritual truth of a chic cosmetics ad. Like the surrounding stuff by Schmidt-Rotluff, Rohlfs, Pechstein, et al, there is a point here, a point there, a little theory everywhere, but not so very much cohesive painting when all is said and done...
Married. Michael Wilding, 45, British actor of stage (Nude with Violin) and screen (The Glass Slipper); and Susan Nell, 42, London interior decorator; he for the third time, she for the fourth; in Las Vegas...
...must be proud of yourselves to put such things as the "Three Nude Studies" in TIME. I return the pictures. You keep them...
Four-year-old Playboy magazine, which has built 788,350 circulation on the proposition that, next to themselves, boys like girls best, discovered last week that even this sturdy philosophy can lead to trouble. After running a color photo of a nude teenager, Playboy Publisher Hugh Hefner was hustled into Chicago's domestic relations court on a charge of contributing to the delinquency of a minor. Said police: brunette Elizabeth Ann Roberts, Hefner's pert Miss Playmate for January, was not a fetching college freshman of 18, as reported in Playboy, but a fetching high-school senior...
...many of them wicked. Most of the action, described in lavender prose, takes place in fairyland, which is reached by springing lightly off Notre Dame de Paris. The heroine, for reasons probably most obvious to a 14-year-old girl bent on writing a naughty novel, is a nude model. Nevertheless, she remains pure to the end in spite of the blandishments of satyrs and other fairyland charmers: "His eyes were like whirls of black gas. Her knees sank. Her stomach melted. His hand was held out toward...