Word: nudes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Considering the fact that nubile maidens on Rio's beaches regularly display almost as much epidermis as do Penthouse pets, many Brazilians thought the campaign against girlie magazines a bit quixotic. What was the purpose? an inquisitive reporter asked a police spokesman. His straight-faced answer: "The artistic nude is going to be abolished...
...terrible, impacted and bulletlike solidity, the very reductio of death; or paint a jug so that it seemed distended with anxiety; or confer on the rounded limbs of his mistress in the '30s, Marie-Therese Walter, a rhythmic and sensuous languor that might otherwise have vanished from the nude after Ingres. No modern artist has been able to pack more sensation into a form than this Spaniard, engaged in his lifelong conversation with Eros and Thanatos...
...exhibited 167 oils and 45 drawings; in all, the gross market value of that fragment of his output was probably about $15 million, and the value of Picasso's whole estate has been guessed at $750 million or more. Although Picasso had long since parted with it, his Nude Woman of 1910 recently fetched a reported $1.1 million from the National Gallery. That is believed to be the highest price yet paid for a Picasso and a clue to future price tags...
...Pioneer 10, may break the sun's gravitational grasp after passing Jupiter and soar out of the solar system, it too has been equipped with a message to any alien civilization that might someday intercept it. Like its twin, Pioneer will carry a plaque showing two humans (a nude male and female) and giving other information-in symbols that NASA hopes are universal-about the ship's origin (TIME, March 6, 1972). Thus any intelligent beings who happen to see the plaque may well understand the message: Pioneer was launched by four-limbed creatures living on a minor...
...Spartan nude beneath the shimmer of a robe; her hair on end and her eyes bright in some dubious ecstasy. This is not she. The woman whirls, the short and tight black body glowing in red lights, and his eyes see the flame-dripping dagger. This is not she. He scratches in his sleep. Snorts, and is angry. Turns and is at rest...