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...Graney's new dance "Faith" attests to the power and mystique of women. Performed last weekend at Emerson Majestic Theatre in Boston, this piece offered the audience a variety of images of women, from the sultry harlot in a tight dress to the vulnerable nymph in the nude...

Author: By Phoebe Cushman, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Exploring the Politics of Women's Bodies | 11/5/1992 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Phoebe Cushman, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Exploring the Politics of Women's Bodies | 11/5/1992 | See Source »

...Ovid's Metamorphoses. As the figures in Venetian Renaissance pastorals tend to be generic rather than specific -- "a nymph" rather than Egeria or Daphne, "a warrior" rather than Alexander -- so are Matisse's scenes of Hesiodic primitive life. We will never know what mythological event the standing nude in Le Luxe (II), 1907-08?, with a crouching woman drying her feet, represents: Matisse didn't know himself. But the antique mold was a perfect receptacle for some of his plastic obsessions, such as the human back, and for the Arcadian vision he inherited from the past and shared with other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Matisse The Color of Genius | 9/28/1992 | See Source »

...Daily Mirror of London has nude photographs on page 3. The New York Post has gossip on page six. And the Harvard Crimson has opinions on page 2. Sometimes, the distinctions among our staff opinions, signed editorials, letters to the editor, guest commentaries and editorial cartoons get blurred and people don't know who is being represented by the writing. As part of our efforts this fallto make the Opinion page more interactive with the community, we would like to explain our different facets and introduce a new feature. We hope that this clears up any confusion and makes this...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A User's Guide to the Opinion Page | 9/16/1992 | See Source »

...week when Allen declared that he was in love with one of Farrow's adopted daughters, Soon-Yi Farrow Previn. Then the tabloid artillery went ballistic. The Connecticut police were investigating a complaint of child molestation against Allen. It was revealed that Farrow discovered the infidelity when she found nude photos of Soon-Yi that Allen had taken. Farrow was mobilizing her loyal kids, sending them to newspapers and TV shows, to defend her motherhood. Those close to Allen charged Farrow with beating Soon-Yi upon learning of the affair, and of mistreating her adopted brood. Each day's accusations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Woody Allen and Mia Farrow: Scenes From A Breakup | 8/31/1992 | See Source »

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