Word: pin-up
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...easy trick, especially when it has to be repeated. In general, modern novelists are notable for a feebleness, sinking sometimes almost to impotence, in this kind of creative invention. Even Hemingway has created only a type, the Hemingway hero (his women, also a type, hardly vary from pin-up girl to succuba...
...ground floor was the recreation room, a large, round, bleak affair, as dreary as a nightclub in daylight. Beside the gambling table was a huge steel cabinet bulging with roulette wheels, dice, hundreds of decks of playing cards with Esquire-style pin-up girls on the back. On a key board hung keys to every room in the palace, and to dozens of apartments in Cairo, with the names of the occupants attached on neat labels...
...characters. Among these characters he discerned a primordial image called "the shadow," which was usually embodied in figures like Satan. Others were the "anima" (the "woman in man," i.e., the female component of the masculine psyche, represented concretely in images ranging from Helen of Troy to the modern pin-up girl), the "animus" (corresponding male image, in the female psyche), the "great earth mother" (representing the material aspects of nature), the "wise old man" (personification of the spiritual principle, i.e., God). If all mankind dreamed more or less alike in its legends and religious symbols, it was reasonable to suppose...
Shinsui Ito is even more of a traditionalist, for he has steadily resisted Western influences and made his reputation as a purely Nippon-Ga (Japanese-style) artist. As a portrayer of beautiful women, Shinsui is inevitably compared with Utamaro, the classic pin-up master. Although Shinsui admits that Japanese standards of feminine charm have changed ("it seems that the bust and figure predominate nowadays"), he has never wavered in his devotion to pure Oriental prettiness...
...after lunch. Meals for the whole day were cooked early in the morning, to keep government planes from spotting smoke. Man, those Huks had a pretty high-class outfit up there. Enough arms and medicines, acres of farms, plenty of bread, even carabaos. They had weddings and dances and pin-up girls. The leaders wore good clothes and their fingernails were manicured...