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...backache. It looks great, but it's very stiff in the construction, and it'll kill your shoulders. We've become a little spoiled with menswear in particular because, of course, we've come off a period in the '70s and '80s when Armani, which is very soft, dominated menswear. And we've become obsessed with comfort. I actually don't like that. I think you should suffer sometimes to be attractive and beautiful, so I cut the clothes very slim because I like to feel the clothes on my body...
After the butchery of World War II, Bacon was one of the artists, along with Alberto Giacometti, Jean Dubuffet and a few others, who found a way to make the painted human figure plausible again by subjecting it to extreme pressure. The soft tissue of Bacon's boiling men and women is wrenched, smeared and vaporized by their own drives and desires, and by whatever it is they do to one another. Their heads are fissured, their torsos are invertebrate; their limbs, stretched and exploded, truly deserve to be called extremities - because with Bacon the body is always in extremis...
...View tends to get tossed into the category of "soft" media. But that raises the question, When The View gives an increasingly press-shy candidate his toughest interview in a while, when it and David Letterman prod the scars of the Democratic primary in interviews with Clinton, when pundits debate the fairness of Us Weekly covers and when Saturday Night Live crystallizes the discussion of sexism and vice-presidential choices, what's so soft about them...
...words of Amy Poehler as Hillary Clinton--on that supposedly soft outlet SNL--"I invite the media to grow a pair." Of which there are five examples every weekday morning...
...disproportionate to the rest of the body. Their posture is stalwart, their eyes blankly intimidating. The emphasis is on sheer brawn. One could easily be overwhelmed by the amount of testosterone that radiates from much of Wein’s work. Even the mythological women in his sculptures trade soft, sensual curves for prominent chests, wide shoulders, and a Spartan-like presence. And yet while his man is no Adonis and his woman no Aphrodite, his fantastical depiction of their might is still beautiful, at the very least due to Wein’s attention to style and creative interpretation...