Word: phallically
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...late 1930s, Still was given to Freudian imagery-cyclopean-eyed totems and phallic horns. Suddenly in his 1943-A (see opposite page), all signs, symbols and literary allusions vanished. Still laid tubes of red and yellow against his surface and squeezed out streaks of lightning. Then he began slathering ever larger canvases with brutal expressions of his own will, great slabs of paint laid on almost as thick as bas-relief...
...superspectacular sexual fantasies, Kubly is hard to beat. He presents an underwater coupling, a 30-ft.-high phallic symbol, a necrophilic stripper, a mass rape of a midget. It's almost enough to bring heterosexuality into disrepute...
...eater!" the dreamer's mother cried out to him in the dream-but did she mean the king or did she mean Jesus? From that night on, the dreamer could never find comfort in Jesus' name. The sound of it flooded him with his frightful revelation: the phallic king of underground terror and the good Lord Jesus were both, somehow, the same...
Overwhelmed, as I am, by the Protestant ethic and its dour and anal tenets, I felt impaled on an Anglo-Catholic wheel of fire from the moment the titles appeared. The letters (designed by Saul Bass) were all formed from phallic components, decorated with blue vegetable coloring and topped with maraschino cherries. In the background one could make out M. Quouquou and Sr. Picasso rais-Yul Brynner on a flaming cross...
...skirt, her hips tip from side to side, slowly, sensually. She walks past the tree, or telephone pole, or both, or a thousand of each. Occasionally, she stops, touches a fence post, a tree trunk, a street lamp, a spiny plant-should they all be construed as phallic symbols...