Word: nudes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sternberg expresses these complex attitudes with practically no dialogue. He still had the silent film director's knack for telling a story with pictures. When Rath glances from Lola Lola to a nude caryatid, or gets entangled in a fishnet which trying to reach her dressing room, pages of conversation could never recreate the moment as effectively...
...Last year, when a hero had daydreamed about his maid and the camera subsequently showed every stitch of clothing falling away from her body, an RTF spokesman explained that the maid really wore flesh-colored, form-fitting underwear. When, in another film called L'Exécution, a nude woman ambled across the screen, RTF's defenders pointed out that she had kept her back to the camera. Some months ago, an irate citizen claimed his marriage had been broken up because an RTF cameraman had panned past him at a prize fight, catching him snuggling with...
Aside from the figure of Christ, whose out-turned knees and outstretched hands register perfect compassion, the most striking of all Gislebertus' figures is that of Eve. Though delicate foliage shields part of her body, she is still a full-bodied nude. The deep relief-over five inches-makes her almost a figure in the round. But it is her personality, not her beauty, that is so tantalizing. She is almost nonchalant as she reaches, without even looking, for the apple. In her eyes, once bright with colored paste, there is the faraway look of the habitual daydreamer...
Inge Borkh is a tall (5 ft. 9 in.), handsome opera star with a crushing tennis backhand and a disconcerting habit of sitting about nude in her dressing room...
...work, takes walks, spends hours in his study. He is nearsighted and, to his wife Ikuko, at least, physically unappealing. She is 44 and still most attractive, with "gently swelling lines." What pains Papa is that in 20 years of marriage he has never seen her in the nude. She has submitted to him, but with no obvious enthusiasm. Now, as middle age slows him down, he fears that his inadequacy will destroy their marriage, for he suspects that Ikuko, even though she is undemonstrative about sex, is really avid for it. Papa adopts a program that may well offend...