Word: phallicism
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...Phallic Symbol...
...impressed by Architect Helmut Jahn's design for the Houston tower [Nov. 8]. The only thing the proposed skyscraper lacks is King Kong swinging from its phallic spire...
...slanted at different angles, clustered on a platform. They give an impression of preconscious liveliness-nature on the march. Their aura gets a little more sinister in a large carving, Femme-Maison '81, done in black marble: a waving cluster of long tubular shapes, frondlike rather than phallic, rustling and jostling against one another with a peculiar, irresistible energy, that rear up around a plateau on which reposes a small schematically carved shed...
...course, the implications of being shut up in a simultaneously phallic and womb like ship, looking wistfully at snapshots of the mountainous fatherland while sinking helplessly deeper and deeper under the sea are there for those who want to explore them. But Petersen concentrates on the nitty gritty of maintaining a ship through attack after attack; his pacing maintains excitement without fail. The same limits of space that enhance the scenes of suspense, where we must suffer with the crew, listening to the watery ping of sonar gingerly feeling out the submarine before it is slammed by bombs, might have...
...wise as our own. A scene in which a cadet shows off his skill with an airplane for his sweetheart from the girls' school begins with the wide-eyed enthusiasm of the era, but just a few words later and Freeman is describing the nosedive with modern phallic abandon. Later on, a troubled character exclaims that not even "Professor Freud" could explain his malady. Freeman seems to suggest ironically that perhaps he could...