Word: nudes
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Creating a shrewd editorial mix of celebrity profiles, newsy features and provocative photos (most notoriously, last year's cover photo of a nude, very pregnant Demi Moore), Brown brought Vanity Fair high profits and nearly 1 million readers. At the same time, she made herself a figure to reckon with on the Manhattan scene: good-looking, Oxford-educated, a sometime playwright, married to Harold Evans, former editor of the Times of London and now head of Random House (yes, another Newhouse jewel...
...staging, directed by Robert Allan Ackerman with a cast of 24, is also just the sort of thing that unnerves opponents of the National Endowment for the Arts, which helped underwrite it. The title character's dance of the seven veils, performed by Sheryl Lee, is intensely erotic, authentically nude. The beheading of John the Baptist at Salome's behest, after he has thwarted her lust, is sickening yet hypnotic -- and is based on biblical-era chronicles. The pervasive homosexual passion is faithful not only to Wilde but to the culture he portrays. Pacino presides with calculated distraction and studied...
Derain demonstrates his love for contour in his watercolors. Whether the contours are angular, as in "Personnages," or sinuous, as in "Nude, 1935," the use of line is Derain's primary tool of manipulation...
...Shipyards is appealing the January 1991 ruling by a federal judge that a welder named Lois Robinson was harassed by male co- workers who put up graphically sexual posters and calendars, some showing women being abused. Among the offensive materials was a poster with a frontal view of a nude woman and the imprinted words USDA CHOICE. One surprising supporter of the appeal: the American Civil Liberties Union, which also opposes the Massachusetts bill...
Salisbury writes soberly in staccato prose that "from the mid-1960s to the early 1970s" -- the height of the bloody purges of the Cultural Revolution -- "Mao's quarters sometimes swarmed with young women." The Great Helmsman staged nude water ballets in his swimming pool. "Art ensembles" and "dancing partners" were standing by wherever he went. One of Mao's doctors referred to him bluntly as "a sex maniac...