Word: phallus
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...outright genius, stands unquestioned. He has a keen knack for dramatizing many of his favorite themes by "inverting" the common knowledge, wherein the normal--progressively through the show--becomes the abnormal and vice versa. His brilliant farce of late 60s English society leaves nothing sacred, not even the phallus of Winston Churchill...
...some of his later extravaganzas, Fellini's Casanova (1976) and City of Women (1979), woman was a dream flowering into nightmare, and unfortunate man was Phallus in Wonderland. Fellini was not the sort of artist to mature as he grew older; he was emotionally a child, an avid teenager, like all the overage boys in his movies. And so, in some of the late ones, he tilted from parody to self-parody. It was inevitable, perhaps, that he would find it difficult to distinguish between being Fellini and doing Fellini...
...inevitable first impression elicits giggles at the curious intersection of phallus and vulva, which reveals more about the tortured psyche of some undersexed Design School grad than most of us care to consider as we make our way down Mass. Ave. Or, as soothsayer of public space and Orchard Professor in the History of Landscape Development John R. Stilgoe says, "It looks like the phone company is about to unroll a length of cable...
...lighting works with the scenery to make even small portions of the stage their own rooms. One comical touch is the final scene where the lights fade to a spotlight on a large golden phallus, which is the image the audience takes with them as they leave...
THERE WERE MANY OFFICERS BUT FEW GENTLEMEN AT the 1991 Tailhook convention in Las Vegas. A Pentagon report released last week found that 83 women and seven men were forcibly groped, stripped, bitten on the buttocks or made to drink from the phallus of a fake rhinoceros during the three-day, semiofficial bacchanal. Navy and Marine aviators lured women down a gauntlet of drunken officers who molested them; some walked through the Las Vegas Hilton exposing their testicles or ran naked around the pool. The report is full of lurid new details about the scandal...