Word: nudes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...girl, Lynn Kauffman, 23, was a divorcee; she was vivacious, smart, well educated. The affair blossomed in the 44-day voyage from Singapore to Boston. On the 45th day, when Utrecht left Boston for New York, the shipboard romance was dead-and so was Lynn Kauffman, whose half-nude body, brutally beaten, was found awash on Spectacle Island in Boston Bay. Last week police arrested Radio Officer Van Rie on a charge of murder...
...lover of Hersey's story is Buzz Marrow, pilot of a bomber called The Body, so named because of the nude painted on its nose. Buzz looks like a burly motorcycle cop, rakes over his crew in billingsgate, yips earsplitting war whoops as the bombs drop away, and slavers over off-duty hobbies that would make good latrine-wall copy. Why diffident Copilot Charles Boman, the novel's first-person narrator, hero-worships Buzz is a mystery, but it is presumably because Marrow oozes self-confidence and is a genius at the flight controls. Poor Bo is colorless...
...relief offers concrete wriggles and a Henry Mooretype nude as a prelude to dinner, and on the wall of the dining hall a graphite with its protozoic forms provides the subject for half the table conversation. To the passer-by on Mount Auburn Street the people on the other side of the glass walls seem to be holding a picnic...
...ensconced in a gold-and-white Hollywood living room surrounded by nude portraits and nude statues of herself, complacent Mae ends her autobiography with a scatter of advice for her sisters. She recommends that they find a man of 40 (by then "he has matured and ripened") with plenty of money ("in love it buys time, place, intimacy, comfort, and a private corner alone"), who is not too expert (the ideal "is the man a woman can teach something about love he never knew before"). She also tells women how to make themselves more attractive to men. The depressing formula...
...elderly people in that apartment building that don't feel very good anyway, and this bothered them"). A man declared that he saw beatniks drinking wine and beer, that he paid admission to attend a life class in the Gas House basement where a nude woman posed, and that he was propositioned by a homosexual. There were tales of lust, drink, and the strange sound of bongos emanating somehow from the sewers...