Word: nudes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...better understanding of fine arts and the visual world may result from first-hand experience with what the artists saw and the materials of line and color they used to deal with that "what." A painting of a nude makes more sense to one who has seen a nude...
...happy." Big-eyed Bette Davis, 62, on the other hand, likes the sexual integrity of many films today. "We would have given our hats to be honest," she said. "We were handicapped in the sexual area; it made us appear dirty." She would not have been up to nude scenes, though. "I have admiration for the young woman who strips before 80 or 90 men on a set, but I could never have done...
...English are old hands at draft evasion, what with the dearth of central heating. But it's harder with your clothes off. The London cast of Kenneth Tynan's Oh! Calcutta! got so cold standing, sitting and walking around onstage in the nude or near-nude that they threatened to get dressed. "If they do it," said Theater Owner Paul Raymond, "I'll ring down the curtain and give everybody their money back." But eventually he did turn the heating on earlier than usual; and stepped up the under-the-floor calorie content. "It's made...
...Fleurus was a salon through which the best artists and writers in France passed each Saturday. Throughout their ten years together at Rue deFleurus, Leo and Gertrude kept buying. One of their first major purchases was Young Girl with Basket of Flowers, a big blue-period Picasso nude for which they paid 150 francs ($29). Soon Gertrude owned more early Picassos than anybody else in France. Picasso dashed off a small Homage to Gertrude, 1909, a parody of Baroque ceiling painting, complete with curtain, clouds and trumpeting angels, which she tacked to the ceiling above her bed. As time wore...
Last week the court decided not to bother. Without comment, the court let stand a decision permitting the sale of magazines in Massachusetts containing photographs of nude women, as long as the photos show no sexual activity. In the second case, again without comment, the court affirmed a decision that a California merchant did not violate the law by selling a film that depicted a nude woman engaged in sexual activity: she was masturbating...