Word: phallicism
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...Harvard and whether it is possible to include a feminine representation in this picture. Do the architecture, art and statuary over campus, particularly in the Yard, reinforce ideas of traditionalism and masculine superiority? And the most pressing question about Harvard’s visual presentation: what is that weird phallic statue next to Boylston...
Language presents us with many opportunities to compromise accuracy for cleverness. In the statement above, the bargain is clearly worth it. Kerry is a “flip-flop,” just as his accuser is another type of shoe? Double entendre, phallic imagery, anti-war allusions? Incredible...
...ingenious engineering is all about from the London headquarters of the insurance firm Swiss Re, designed by Norman Foster. Even before it opened in April, it was known as the gherkin because it rises against the sky like a plump green pickle. (And yes, nobody has missed the more phallic interpretations.) It too has a triangular steel trusswork, a structural necessity that doubles as a twirling surface pattern. But the building's signal feature is the inclusion of large interior gardens throughout. "Those become the lungs of the building," says Foster. "They allow fresh air, light and views into...
...every glass. When challenged to boost sales at Planet Hollywood, the women again fetched the street-walker wear out of their wardrobes and begged men on the street to buy them shots inside the restaurant. When presenting a new advertising approach for an airline, they photographed the jets as phallic symbols and used ad slogans alluding to the size of the fliers’ manhood. From their tactics, you’d think they were competing for a position at Hooters—not president of a major company. “Sex sells,” shrugged...
...where he fled when Tahiti proved too spoiled--his self-imposed exile still serves as the last word in escape fantasies. Tahiti was the place where he hoped to find a native culture in tune with his most uncivilized impulses and where he could discharge energies, artistic, spiritual and phallic, that bow-tied Europe wanted no part of. Even D.H. Lawrence, that subsequent prophet of the primal against the merely civilized, made a kind of homage to Gauguin in later life, when he bolted for New Mexico...