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Here is little Cupid as a London linkboy, sporting demonic bat wings and an immense phallic torch to remind those in the know of the proclivities of a certain patron. And here are Reynolds' friends in the learned Society of Dilettanti, arguing about antiquities and knocking back the vintage claret, while Sir William Hamilton points to an engraving of one of his own Greek vases and Mr. John Taylor holds up a lady's garter. Peering into this lost world--reprehensible, no doubt, for its elitism, sexism, amateurism and other social vices, yet not without its allure--one realizes what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Mixing Grandeur and Tattiness | 3/31/1986 | See Source »

...twigs, pupae, the embryonic scribblings of cellular life learning to write its name. One painting, Insecta, 1985, is full of chrysalises, cockchafers and stag beetles, with a red cicada clinging to a scrubby patch of blue ground. Another, Pitch Lake, 1985, has an array of spore clusters creeping, with phallic intent, across a sticky-looking field of bitumen. Some of the images are quite recognizable (there are clams, for instance, and bean sprouts), while others have the sketchy look of genetic diagrams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Obliquely Addressing Nature | 2/24/1986 | See Source »

...everywhere is Santa so well-intentioned. Wigglesworth G and H decided to hold The Most Tasteless Secret Santa contest. "Think gutter and phallic and you'll have the right idea," says David B. Bahr '89. "There were supposed to be prizes for the contest winners, but everyone was so good and so tasteless that I don't think any were given...

Author: By Shari Rudavsky, | Title: Secret Santa's Come to Town | 12/16/1985 | See Source »

...death are the targets of fun amidst a background of polarized Irish politics. As a phallic tombstone rises backstage, the two prostitutes (Gonzales and Lisa Peers) mourn the murder of one of their more active comrades. Cronin's attempt to seduce a young lady (Catherine Harris) in the cemetery becomes a bizarre waltz of carpe diem, pitting his hedonistic wit against the all-too-serious violent intentions of his fellows. By intermission, the audience is hooked by the bizarre humor and intriguing scenarios of the first...

Author: By T.m. Doyle, | Title: Agony and Ecstasy on the Mainstage | 11/14/1985 | See Source »

...camp Feyd (the rock star Sting), in gold-leaf bathing suit resplendent. The Guild Spokesman, an imperial messenger, has a bald head cracked on one side and oozing like a soft-boiled egg. Then there are the 1,000-ft. worms of Arrakis, the universe's longest phallic symbols, which hold within themselves the secret of melange...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Fantasy Film as Final Exam | 12/17/1984 | See Source »

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