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...only thing more surprising than the rapid erection of a nine-foot tall snow phallus in Harvard Yard last week was its even-quicker demise. Soon after it was completed, a group of self-appointed phallus-breakers knocked the ice-encrusted sculpture to bits. The destruction of the phallus was clearly a cowardly act of vandalism. But what were the motives of the phallus breakers? That’s a much harder nut to crack...

Author: By Jonathan H. Esensten, | Title: The Broken Phallus of Harvard Yard | 2/19/2003 | See Source »

...Watching the Berle-show "Hound Dog," we can feel the career-threatening danger of his burlesque moves, see his hip-level guitar wagging insolently like the first electric phallus. No wonder the onlookers gasped and giggled. They knew they were present for a cultural sea change; and their animosity was a necessary impediment for the invader to overcome. Exactly the same abrasion is evident in the 1951 film of "A Streetcar Named Desire," in the moment when Vivien Leigh's fluttery Blanche duBois is first confronted with Brando's brutish Stanley Kowalski. It is the instant, epochal collision...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: Happy Birthday, Elvis | 1/8/2003 | See Source »

From the huge steel phallus guarding the front door to the pervasive presence of wood inside to the noticeably attractive staff, Cambridge, 1 has a distinct feel of urban masculinity. You can almost imagine a couple of drunk guys deciding to forgo the real world and instead open up their own imagined culinary nirvana filled with quality food, good drinks and hot girls...

Author: By Clay B. Tousey iii, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Night Out | 4/25/2002 | See Source »

...tyrants, and Trujillo did his best (or worst) to epitomize the pre-Castro stereotype. His uniforms were the spiffiest, his medals the most splendiferous and his enemies the most fearful. He was hailed as God's gift to the nation and was its unchallenged alpha male--the First Phallus of the Republic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Survival of the Fittest | 12/10/2001 | See Source »

...period’s comedy was characterized by disorganization in structure, bathroom humor, comic eating with sexual overtones and free use of language. Segal refers to the period of Old Comedy as an “unique confection of the lyre and the phallus, a counterpoint of melodic delicacy and discordant grossness...

Author: By Amy W. Lai, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Death of Comedy | 11/2/2001 | See Source »

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