Word: pinks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Word had gone out that Delvaux' Temptation, featuring three pink ladies, had barely squeezed past U.S. customs officials. Moreover, the painting could not be reproduced in full. By Postoffice standards, the fact that the ladies were painted with pubic hair placed an undue emphasis on their nakedness. Conservative Knoedler's tucked the shocker away in an upstairs corner...
Many of the paintings looked as though they had faded in the sun; the colors were so faint that it required close examination to detect where a pink ended and a blue began. Another unusual feature of Gwen John's painting was the number of studies she made of her subjects from the rear. She sketched a good deal in church, using women at prayer for models...
...shadow parliament learned last week that it was going to get one-or the shadow of one. President Higinio Morinigo, Paraguay's dictator since 1940, announced that a Constituent Assembly would be elected by year's end. There might even be an opposition. Already the buff and pink mud walls of Asuncion were frescoed with the name of Colonel Rafael Franco (an ex-President who returned to Paraguay last month after the President opened concentration camp gates). Hammer-&-sickle were everywhere, for the Commies-all 300 of them-had spent each night since their recent liberation painting walls...
...ought to be sex, but one visit makes that doubtful. Whatever it is, Harvard-men meet with Boston on common ground at the Old Howard--leer almost as luridly at the flesh as do the natives, shudder with them at the chorus, and blush a slightly darker shade of pink at the comedians...
Under the leadership of Dr. Doreal and his astral remote control, Denver's Brotherhood of the White Temple prospered. By 1942 it had acquired an imposing downtown mansion. Here, pink-cheeked Prophet Doreal, garbed in a gold-trimmed robe of purple silk, addressed his followers from a throne that had once belonged to Mexico's Emperor Maximilian...