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...barber shop went out wish knickers and Milton Berle, and Sullivan, a world-famous hairdresser working in Beantown says the hair salon, the latest trend in hairdressing, is on its way out, also...
...same time it is a very "European" picture, full of the eye-grabbing devices that the 31-year-old Eakins, still fresh from Europe, knew would make it stand out in a crowded salon: blood and darkness, baroque composition, and the melodrama of the horrified wife on the left, shielding her eyes. One cannot imagine it being painted by someone ignorant of the art milieu in Paris. Such interactions are the real stuff of this show, and no one interested in American painting should miss...
...much fun with the giddy life of the voyage. Much of the amusement has to do with unfortunate encounters between the foolish passengers, who like to believe that they have transcended the instinctual life, and the lower animal kingdom. There is, for example, the seagull that invades the dining salon, flapping everyone into hysteria. Then there is the matter of the Emir's pet rhinoceros, languishing in the hold and giving off a most unpleasant stench. Seasick, any reasonable person might suppose; lovesick, the opera crowd prefers to believe, bringing the beast into their own frame of reference. Would...
...language, both verbal and nonverbal, to convey information. Middle-class women no longer got pregnant, for example; they became enceinte, or were "in an interesting condition." Painters and sculptors thrilled staid merchants with luscious nudes fig-leafed with titles like Venus Now Wakes. Manet's Olympia shocked the salon of 1865 not because she was naked but because she looked back at the viewer with the defiant eyes of a thoroughly contemporary Parisian courtesan. On second thought, said Freud, who is one of Gay's principal heroes, perhaps "a certain measure of cultural hypocrisy is indispensable...
Many of the first signs of a cultural crackdown were exquisitely subtle. Premier Zhao Ziyang quietly forsook his Western suits for Mao jackets. The Peking municipal government ordered its employees to shave off their mustaches. The capital's leading hairdressing salon announced that it would no longer give men permanents. Many of the first casualties were similarly obscure: a Peking shopworker who procured two illustrated sex manuals from a Hong Kong businessman and reproduced 7,000 lucrative photos of their choicest scenes; an enterprising commune in Fujian province that used its pooled resources to acquire twelve video recorders...