Word: tigers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...games pop out on the walls, making the Mona Lisa look like a sedate frump and some of Toulouse-Lautrec's old haunts seem like a meeting of mah-jongg players. Ben Johnson's voluptuaries are in the pink, Mel Ramos trots out jungle queens in tiger-skin bikinis, Marjorie Strider shows paintings that project into the 36-Dimension, and Herb Hazelton delights in garish girdles from the Sears, Roebuck catalogue. Andy Warhol's Blue Girlie (9 ft. by 6 ft.) has a room all to herself, not out of modesty but because she only comes...
...stone woman who coyly says "I'm about ten pounds overweight": she goes off with her musical director and longtime friend Ernest Wampola (a Viennese doctor of music) on camping trips in the bush country of central Africa, where she fishes and photographs game. She has caught tiger fish in the Chobe River in Bechuanaland and fat, Dark Continent catfish in Southern Rhodesia's Lake Mcllwaine. Last summer, from a distance of less than 60 feet, she photographed a lioness chewing up the carcass of a wildebeest...
...loans that put a financial base under half of Chinatown's enterprises during years when Chinese could not even get life insurance. A high point in her career came in 1962, when she helped preside over the opening of a new bank building in ceremonies featuring firecrackers and tiger dancers to drive evil spirits away from the dragon-crested doors...
Where women were concerned, Louis combined a grasshopper's attention span with the appetite of a tiger. Pompadour, who suffered from tuberculosis, desperately sought to divert him to less athletic pursuits, like amateur theatricals, at which she was gifted, and small dinner parties where the king could "pour his own coffee" and see a few friends. It was a great relief when, as her adviser, the Abbe de Bernis, related with exquisite courtliness, the King's "friendship took the place of gallantry." But then Pompadour had to be doubly on guard against being driven from favor by more...
...companion work is Fifty abstract pictures which as seen from two yards change into three Lenines masquerading as Chinese and as seen from six yards appear as the head of a royal tiger. The painting lives up to every detail in its title. Explains Dali: "Eeet is like le floor of a hotel room que je stayed in avec mosaic and a rug shaped like the head of a tigre." The heads of Lenin, filling triangles between the mosaic squares are disguised as Fu Manchu, and the whole work forms a tiger head...