Word: phallus
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...sonnet’s end. Themes are dealt with and quickly discarded, including culture clashes, the horrors of battle, eroticism, and the war between the sexes. In one particularly memorable bit dealing with the latter issue, Étienne powerfully joins (and then separates) the idea of the phallus with woman: “I was dreaming that sister had her member cut off by me. / In my dream I held the remaining part in one hand. / And in the other the amputated part. / Each part had a hard-on. I was amused.” So what?...
...lock. That key is surely borrowed from an odd creature doing the same in several of Picasso's seaside pictures from the late 1920s, when he was flirting with Surrealism. Those elastic Picassos, with their biomorphic figures that are part human, part dirigible, part swollen breast or phallus, turned a key in Bacon. They showed him the way to the nightmare distortions of anatomy that he arrived at by the end of World War II, a time when living flesh had been twisted every which...
...varying combinations. Nouvel has called his building, which houses a local water company, "a fluid mass that bursts through the ground like a geyser under permanent, calculated pressure." That would be one way to look at it. As just about everyone has noticed, it's also more plainly a phallus than any tall building has ever dared...
...incident was reminiscent of the destruction of a nine-foot snow penis constructed by the crew team in Tercentenary Theatre in 2003. The phallus came tumbling down amid controversy about its construction...
...Prince was ever gone, he’s definitely back. He gave us Beyoncé-aided bravura at the 2004 Grammys, and we worshipped his phallus during this year’s Superbowl halftime show. Musicians have spent the past five years cannibalizing his oeuvre: “The Love Below” was no doubt the result of André 3000 stealing tracks from Prince’s vaults, and “Futuresex/Lovesounds” isn’t nearly as futuristic or original as JT would like you to think. Prince himself has released three decent...