Word: nudes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...discretion." Outfitted in the latest fashions and draped with $500,000 worth of jewelry ("gifts from my admirers"), she cut a figure of elegance and sauciness on her cross-country tours in a private Pullman. The press trailed her everywhere, reported her forays into the Monte Carlo casinos, her nude swims in the Mediterranean, her dietetic secrets (one meal a day, fortified with a pre-bed glass of milk mixed with ten drops of iodine). Roads, perfumes, sundaes were named after her, and if a suitor was lacking, she was not above dredging up a photograph of some deceased Hindu...
...with the boycott of classes -- are demanding greater participation in the affairs of the university and want to share in at least some of the actual decision-making. The national press may have given more attention to the mass sit-ins, the abortive Filthy Speech Movement, and the famed nude parties in Berkeley, but the real issue on the campus is student (not non-student) power...
...19th century France as seen by artists from Prud'hon to Daumier. The book includes three drawings by Novelist Victor Hugo, who painted as fast and furiously as he wrote- leaving behind about 450 pictures when he died. Hugo's riverscape is delicate and brooding, his ample nude is created with a few bold strokes. Other subjects range from classical to genre, and, typically, the plates begin with a love scene and end with a disputation between doctors as death steals away with their patient...
...GARDEN by Julia Berrall. 388 pages. Viking. $15. An illustrated history of gardening from the time of the Pharaohs to the present day (see cut, opening page). It is full of odd nuggets of information, from the fact that ladies of the Middle Ages often bathed nude before guests in their gardens to the date of the first modern lawn mower: 1830. Fine reading for soil-sports...
...carving directly in stone and wood, producing massive, well-rounded figures that found their way into leading museums and even into some less exalted shrines, most notably Radio City Music Hall, which in 1932 stirred an artistic furor by rejecting his Spirit of the Dance as "too nude" for its lobby, finally reinstated it; of a heart attack; in Bath, Maine...