Word: nudes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...your Feb. 15 discussion of the Tate Gallery's affairs, when you refer to the charge that "the Tate trustees had sold good paintings, bought inferior works at inflated prices," you do not specify what they sold, what bought. Actually what was lately sold was a nude bather by Renoir, whose popularity in contemporary America you document in your color spread in the same issue. They sold it for $16,800 . . . and their principal purchase from this money was Picasso's cubist Seated Nude Woman...
...mistake of dropping in on one U.S. division the same day Marilyn was distracting it. Muttered he: "I did not have this much competition when I ran for the presidential nomination." At Taegu Air Force Base, her last wolf-whistle stop, Marilyn was "very pleased" to find her famed nude calendar photograph pinned up in the mess hall. "I wish I could have seen more of the boys," she purred. Returning to Japan, she was briefly bussed by her groom, ex-New York Yankee Outfielder Joe DiMaggio, who somewhat obliquely announced to her: "I've found a place...
Political Philosophy: A tough lawyer-cop, with what seems a single-minded concern for law and order and a Watch & Ward Society attitude toward scant bathing suits and nude statues, Scelba leans left of center in his party. He favors more social reforms and public works; has attacked speculators for pushing up prices, industrialists for contributing to the Communists as insurance for the future. "It is virtually impossible," he once said, "to be Minister of Interior for a government that doesn't care if the people work...
...were especially eventful. A controversial parody of Esquire brought University wrath, and the building was padlocked for a short time. Cambridge police found the most objectionable item a drawing of a voluptuous nude entitled "What the Bride Will Wear." And the depression also brought financial difficulties, to the delight of CRIMSON editors, who twice plastered "For Sale" signs on the Lampoon door...
...Zurich. After New York, the 64-picture Fuseli show will go to Cleveland, Detroit, St. Louis and Baltimore. Most of the pictures have an extravagant, stagelike quality; men and women gesture and posture elaborately, as in The Witches Show Macbeth Banquo's Ghost. Macbeth, a heroic, anatomically detailed nude, holds an outstretched hand against the apparition conjured up by the three hags. There are also a few amorous scenes, such as The Kiss, in which the lovers' bodies are passionately contorted, suggestive of the meticulously executed pornographic studies which Fuseli turned out (none of them is on view...