Word: phallically
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...tensile column with its marblelike blue-green veins and triple-shafted underside. Stout and faithful fellow! My life's companion.... Nothing as solid and rea... [He is] my best self..." The physicality and vividness of Updike's writing are great assets, but I, at least, am not ready for phallic elegy...
...quite beautiful, actually, the cartridge. The butt. The smooth, compact cylinder. A representation of, and attempt to display, masculinity? Perhaps. A phallic symbol? I think...
...fantastic lighting, create a mood of long ago-something between the chivalry of the Middle Ages, and the mystery of ancient Egypt. The dance corps does demonstrate a timeless-though somewhat flavorless-elegance, but the reed-like poles they use quickly degenerate from quirky and innovative into annoyingly phallic...
...courts for years. If they take effect, cigarette sales would require a photo I.D. offering proof of age. In magazines read by a significant number of teens, tobacco ads would be limited to a black-and-white, all-text format--no photographs, no cartoon camels with phallic snouts. The same rules would apply to billboards, which would be banned entirely within 1,000 ft. of schools or playgrounds. Sponsorship at sporting events would be forbidden. Likewise tobacco-brand-name logos on products such as hats, T shirts and gym bags...
Brancusi gave bronze a new dimension by bringing it to a mirror shine, as in the Birds or the golden curves and lobes of Princess X, the sculpture whose supposedly phallic qualities caused such a foofaraw in Paris in 1920. (It would always infuriate Brancusi that Princess X was interpreted as a penis and testicles rather than a woman's head, neck and breasts, but of course the sculpture is richer for its double meaning.) Because his work was deeply influenced by classical Indian and Khmer sculpture, it may be that the Eastern practice of gilding the effigy...