Word: nudes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...anymore. Occasionally, the "Oak Leaf" editors went too far. Last spring, one "in" list implied that certain residents--the editors named names--were hiding their true sexual orientations. This fall's editor published nude photographs of himself. The house office fired him, although Loker Professor of English Robert J. Kiely, the house master, says the photos had nothing to do with it. The official notices had become "garbled," Kiely says. Anything the editors choose to do on the back, he says, is fine, "as long as individuals not be attacked or offended." Were there complaints...
...censorship isn't the issue. It's the interactions between different social groups in the houses that matter. In the days of ordered choice, the Adams House stereotype offended few house residents. Most people chose the house partly for its reputation. But times change. As the nude-photo editor says, "Just the fact that some people got offended at it says something." And the "Oak Leaf" story hints at just how the non-ordered choice system has strained house life...
...APPRENTICE PAINTER HONES his rough craft by sketching a bowl of fruit or a reclining nude. The would-be novelist pulls a diary from her dresser and changes the names. But ambitious young filmmakers, with a fondness for old genres and an eye to the box office, take tours of the underworld. When in doubt, go with the gangsters. Not every first-time director can make Citizen Kane; the budget, let alone the vision, would be out of reach. But a Mean Streets, Martin Scorsese's 1973 breakthrough film about a brotherhood of toughs in Manhattan's Little Italy...
...Faith" inevitably moves to an undaunted celebration of the woman's body. In the final scene, the women, now nude, recline sensually in heaps of flesh or depart from the group to reach again toward the heavens. In one particularly striking moment, the seven naked women stand in a line and walk directly toward the audience. They force us to confront their sexuality, saying "Here are our bodies...
...dance concludes with a lone nude dancer left vulnerably in the center of the stage. She is soon surrounded by her counterparts in their dresses and heels. The hardedged harlots do not overtake this divine image, however. Instead, they remove their pumps as the nude dancer rises from the floor, and all turn and walk upstage into the darkness...