Word: phallically
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Harvard planned to build a bridge across Broadway, connecting the Sackler and the Fogg, hence the presence of phallic green pillars outside Sackler. But Cambridge residents protested, saying the bridge would divide the city...
...much to do with pleasure. Just about everything that could turn you off is catnip to him: aggro, solipsism, tension, repetition, torpor and bad jokes that may have come out of a misanthrope's fortune cookie. Boredom too. Try watching a fuzzy tape of Nauman overstretching a simple phallic pun by very slowly "manipulating" a long fluorescent tube. You don't so much enjoy this show as endure it; you get through it. Then, in the coffee shop, you peruse the catalog and find such hyperbolic drivel as this, by co-curator Kathy Halbreich: "Like the great 17th century metaphysical...
Perhaps this will contribute to your already ample research on the topic of stimulating user conversations. "Have you ever noticed that the architecture of Leverett Towers is clearly projectile and phallic whereas Claverly Hall is mammary?" "Have you ever noticed that the words 'gender issue' sound a lot like 'genital tissue?"' Usually at this point, someone decides that it would be a real good idea to break out the Air Supply album...
...witnessed the smarmy phallic triumph of Joe Camel. One Arts editor is even a victim of his rise to power, which is how R.J. Reynolds' promotional video found its way to the Arts desk. She had an incurable desire for Camel trinkets: the t-shirts, Zippos and fishing lures. In the process of cashing in her Camel Bucks she unwittingly signed herself up for a host of freebies from the National Smokers' Rights Alliance and every toxic chemical company on the planet. It's cultural studies--when art meets commerce, advertising happens--and it merits a review...
...image of sexual negation. The Barn is a Keatsian cave of forlorn despair and homosexual repression, suggesting void on both a sexual and an ontological level. The only hint of resolution comes in the form of conversion. All seems resolved as the tobacco is mysteriously rendered into phallic triumph in the form of the omnipresent cigarette...