Word: phallic
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...stupid in a clever manner. We don't try to show as many phallic symbols as we can" said Michael E. Ronan...
...triumphed, London was actually where the term originated. Its very first visual use was in a 1956 collage by the British artist Richard Hamilton, Just what is it that makes today's homes so different, so appealing?, in which a body-builder hero is holding an enormous phallic sucker labeled POP, and a blown-up frame from a romance comic -- a prediction of the as yet undone work of Roy Lichtenstein -- hangs on the wall. Nor, just for the record, was this the only time the Brits were ahead of the Yanks. The chrome-plated whiskey bottles and other bibelots...
...message, the show remains lighthearted. Jeanne Simpson's phenomenal choreography, especially in the scene parodying "Singin' in the Rain," helps to sustain the playful tone. The male and female chorus members are delightful, as they spar, tango and symbolically sharpen knives at the dinner table. Although the phallic use of umbrellas is carried slightly too far, by the end of the show the audience does view the battle of the sexes as a timeless dance...
...books on screenwriting, Khouri, a music-video producer who had made videos for Robert Cray, Alice Cooper and the Commodores, started writing. Nine months later, Thelma & Louise found its way to director Ridley Scott and, through him, to MGM/UA. During the shooting, Scott added much of the phallic imagery -- the huge trucks, the giant cacti and a chemical-spewing plane -- that has riled some of the film's detractors. He also cut scenes that portrayed the close friendship between the two title characters, including one in which each confides what she fears most (for Thelma, growing old with a husband...
...item auctioned in Manhattan last week. Objet-Dard, a 1962 Marcel Duchamp bronze casting owned by the estate of the late graffiti artist Keith Haring, was listed in the Christie's catalog at a cautiously low estimate of $8,000 to $10,000. (The title of the frankly phallic piece is a pun on objet d'art, substituting the French word for dart.) In a matter of seconds, bids for the 8-in. work soared into six figures in a battle between two unseen telephone bidders. The winning offer: $135,000 from a Belgian art dealer...