Word: nudes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...policewomen are members of a 140-strong task force of bobbies and detectives who are engaged in one of the biggest murder hunts in London's history. It started last week when the nude strangled body of brunette Helen Barthelemy, a stripper turned tart, was found in an alley close to the Thames at Brentford, miles from her Bayswater beat. She was the fourth prostitute to be killed since last November...
...superb scene, Lebrac, the leader of the Longevernes (skillfully played by Andre Treton), capitalizes frighteningly on this situation and has all his "men" strip nude for, I'm sure, the best surprise attack in history. It is also symptomatic of the symbolism which is heightened by a light touch...
...symbolism and comedy reaches a bizarre climax when Horst takes Catherine to a party at his mother's villa. In his mother's bedroom, crowning a marriage proposal to the girl whose favors can be had for the price of an espresso, he generously covers her nude body with some of Mama's 10,000-lire banknotes. The door opens. In sails Bette, rococo-eyed, jewels ajangle, a one-woman spectacular. She sees her darling at play, drops into her deep-fried Southern drawl and issues what must be the last word in ultrapermissive Momism: "Please...
...Henri was best as a portraitist: with two circlets of emerald green he puts a Gaelic glint into an Irish boy's eyes. The 41 works include sketches of his fellow rebels in the Ashcan school and the well-known painting of a Chinese worker, Jim Lee. A nude that raised eyebrows at the 1913 Armory show is still a scene stealer. Through April...
...bridge whips in the wind and collapses. The Hindenburg bursts into flame. A ship sinks. A firing squad fires. Bodies hang upside down in Rome. Bruce Conner could be interpreted as a kind of Cotton Mather XXIII. His point seems to be that if you start with a beautiful nude, death and violent destruction soon follow...