Word: nudes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Vegas, one of three nightspots that had featured bare-bosomed chorus girls bowed to the Catholic Church's protest that nude shows were contrary to the moral and divine law (TIME, Aug. 25). But while Beldon Katelman, president of El Rancho Vegas, apologized to church authorities and put his girls back in bras, the Stardust staunchly retained its twelve nudes and the Dunes added four to its original...
...never uncovered a girl's navel," cried the Sands' Jack Entratter. But El Rancho Choreographer Barry Ashton retorted: "Bare chests are the thing here-it's what the public wants, and we're giving it to them. It will soon be nothing to see a nude girl. All the showgirls along the Strip will be replaced by nudes...
Puccini once showed a friend a French lithograph of a nude girl pressed against a grated window in Venice. "This," he said, "is the kind of libretto I want for my next opera." Failing in his lifelong search for a girl who combined frailness with sensuality, he built those qualities into a procession of operatic heroines - Manon Lescaut, Mimi in Bohème, Cio-Cio-San in Butterfly, Liù in Turandot. His obsession with swift love followed by swifter death gave his work a narrow emotional range, a failing of which he was conscious. He envied Wagner his heroic...
Accepted abroad in Berlin, New York and Chicago while still suspect in Paris, the impressionists fought for Louvre recognition under the leadership of Claude Monet, who spearheaded a subscription movement to buy Manet's famed nude Olympia for the nation. Accepted in 1890 after heated argument, Olympia was hung in the Luxembourg Palace, then the waiting room for the main Louvre collection. In 1894 the painter Gustave Caillebotte bequeathed the nation 67 prize impressionist paintings, had 38 grudgingly accepted for the Luxembourg, including Renoir's Le Moulin de la Galette, Pissarro's Red Roofs. By 1911, opinion...
...workers came on a wall of stone blocks apparently taken from a monument built in the 1st or 2nd century A.D. and made into a fortification. Many of them are carved, showing scenes of ancient provincial life. On one of them are a man and woman holding hands. Nude dancers gambol across another...