Word: pubic
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...monopolizes your gaze, is a woman on the floor in the foreground. Her bulk is colossal, almost comic. She simply blows away the decorum of the nude -- the ideal body re-formed by thought. She isn't nude but aggressively naked, a biological mountain: swollen thighs and belly, pubic ravine, breasts like boulders, their stretch marks and blotches half- echoing the surface texture of the girl's cloth. The strength of her presence isn't due just to her depicted fatness but to the way the image burgeons from dense paint, a heavy mass like cream with gravel...
...artist as friends, lovers, daughters. But the nature of that relationship doesn't appear in the painting, and everyone is treated with the same relentless scrutiny of physical fact, so that a chin or an elbow acquires the same intensity, as painting, as a breast or a pubic mound. The results have much to do with modeling -- physical manipulation, as though the body were being reconstructed in the medium of paint, crowded with bumps and hollows, and bursting with life...
...Brock's portrait of Hill becomes increasingly diabolic. Relying frequently on anonymous sources, he describes her at Oklahoma State University as obsessed by racial and gender grievances. He repeats the claim by two of Hill's former students that she returned papers to them in which they found her pubic hair sprinkled among the pages. The story is useful for demonizing Hill and fun for Brock to tell in his main text. Perhaps too much fun. Only in a footnote buried in the back does he acknowledge that the whole tale may have been a racist joke about the only...
...telling them how she learned to make oud, the molasses-thick perfume worn by Bedouin women for its aphrodisiac properties. "We'll show you how to make it," a group of women in Oman finally agreed after a week of cajoling, "but first you have to show us your pubic hair." And that's how Roddick ended up with her pants at half-mast, surrounded by Bedouin women (who pluck their body hair religiously) "pointing and hooting and screaming with laughter...
...explicit (e.g. the double page spread of Madonna's crotch) but not terribly erotic, in the sense that there's not much left to suggest. And, considering Madonna's antics in the past few years, the most shocking thing about the book is the revelation that she dyes her pubic hair, too. The half-tone black and white print quality is nothing special, and the book is somewhat flimsy--at one Boston newspaper office, the copy I saw was falling apart after less than a day (and an unspecified number of trips to the bathroom...