Word: nudes
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...these works, “Dancers, Nude Study,” will be donated to the museum in honor of the retirement of James Cuno, who was director of the museums until December...
...erect, was created as much by Saint-Gaudens' bronzes as by Mathew Brady's photos. Our image of the repressive, striding Puritan with Bible, cloak and conical hat owes much of its existence to the rhetoric of Saint-Gaudens' monument to Deacon Samuel Chapin in Springfield, Mass. His only nude female figure, the gilded sheet-copper Diana that he made as a weathervane figure for the top of Stanford White's original Madison Square Garden in 1891, slender as any mannerist charmer from Fontainebleau, became in a literal way the Golden Girl of the '90s in New York, as definitive...
...marketed in the Middle East, where the Muslim convert's name is one to reckon--and advertise--with. The major backer of the more-than-$10 million project is Saudi Billionaire Sheik Mohammad Al Fassi (he of the former pea-green Beverly Hills mansion with the garishly painted nude statues). So in the Arab world, the car will be known as the Fassi Ali. Whatever its name, Ali knows the game. "This car is going to be the greatest," he says...
Over the next month, the interrogators experiment with other tactics. They strip-search him and briefly make him stand nude. They tell him to bark like a dog and growl at pictures of terrorists. They hang pictures of scantily clad women around his neck. A female interrogator so annoys al-Qahtani that he tells his captors he wants to commit suicide and asks for a crayon to write a will. At one stage, an Arabic-speaking serviceman, posing as a fellow detainee, is brought to Camp X-Ray for a short stay in an effort to gain al-Qahtani...
...solo, which she performed nude, was followed by a two-hour discussion by anthropologists, sociologists, novelists, art historians, and critics, and received great critical acclaim...