Word: showering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...white, implacably still, they command a whole ambiance around themselves. Step too close to the motel bed with its sprawled, exhausted girl, and you feel as awkward as an intruder. Even the simplest figure-a naked girl slumped on a chair by a window, a woman emerging from a shower stall-seems not just a piece of sculpture but a centerpiece of some invisible living space. The mind's eye creates walls, curtains, furniture that is not there...
Maybe so. But the strange white figures in the real shower stalls or the garage attendant slouched outside a real winking sign that says "Park," by their whiteness and strangeness, take on a kind of eerie archetypal relevance. The girl in Subway is every girl or any girl who has nervously taken a lonely train home late one night. The couple in Motel is all guilty couples who have ever sneaked away for a surreptitious rendezvous...
There is one remaining problem in Segal's work. Where to put it? Subway in the corner of a living room would impose the clickety-clack of rails maddeningly on the inner ear. The woman emerging from her shower stall obviously expects privacy. Each of them seems to demand a room...
...went through the usual statistical garbage, ripped through the telephone book, and then strolled into the IBM shower stall I-22 computer. "Gasp," I cried. "The nozzle is gone. I'm all washed...
...dimensional plots. Unlike conventional grind-circuit skin shows, enlightenment movies approach sex with Teutonic seriousness, even though their accounts of reproduction and related matters are illustrated with explicit nude sequences. In Helga, the first Aufklaerungsfilm to be shown in the U.S., a robust young mother emerges from her shower just as her towheaded son enters the room to ask: "Where do babies come from?" Answers Mother, toweling herself: "Mutti's vagina opens and the baby slips out." The child looks satisfied, but whether from the answer or the revealing view of Mutti is hard...