Word: phallus
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...help loving the rascal, Gwynne has a way of taking lines that are obscure on the page and making them seem perfectly natural. He can also put over Shakespeare's puns--as when, in a colloquy about a three-voice song,he turns a ballad scroll into a phallus while assuring the others. "I can bear my part." He handles his several songs with aplomb too--especially his first. "When daffodils begin," which is appropriately, an example of the old reverdie, a song of nature's joy in the return of spring. Lee Hoiby's music, which is not very...
...Clash of Hawks by Robert Charles (Pinnacle; $1.25) is memorable for its second sentence: "The 200-foot high derrick was a black, latticed steel phallus raping the hot, virginal blue...
...Devil and Miss Jones. This will set your blood boiling and your pulse searing, but those symptoms ain't eroticism--one's reaction is closer to severe moral confusion at this graphic, phallus-worshipping, degrading film. Georgia Spelvin plays the lead role, but the real "stars" are the penises and vaginas which fill the screen: the only way not to die of boredom is to imagine them as the new actors and actresses of the future, personified, with tiny little faces which are kinda cute and even vaguely expressive. Except for this puppet show element, The Devil and Miss Jones...
...biggest risk comes at the end of the first act. One of the few things that excites Carlos sexually is seeing someone burned at the stake; his courtiers obligingly find a heretic. Carlos is aroused; from beneath his twenty-foot high royal robes emerges a golden phallus fully ten feet in diameter which extends across the stage at a stately pace until it reaches from side to side as the court sings Handel's Hallelujah Chorus...
Sharp-edged as a sword, erect as a phallus, spare as a symbol, the sculptures of Japan's Masayuki Nagare make even the generous dimensions of Manhattan's Staempfli Gallery seem cramped. They soar through the ceiling, project invisible backdrops of misted mountains against an opaline sea. Within themselves, around themselves, they create their own space. At the age of 50, Nagare has become clearly one of the world's major sculptors...