Word: topless
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...Topless dancers...
...both European and African photographers—offer a contextualization for Kïeta and Sidibé’s photographs. One of the most striking postcards is internally labeled “Young Arab Woman from Timbuktu,” showing a photograph of two topless women reclining in the pose of an odalisque. The photograph was taken by Francois-Edmund Fortier in 1905, and is quite obviously an example of a European conceit of the exotic. However, both Keïta and Sidibé play with the idea of the odalisque, providing their own (less sexualized) interpretations...
...days before the September Massacre, just as those who survived the First World War nostalgically recalled the vanished era before Europe plunged into blood and darkness. Perhaps I will come to regard my own 2001 summer—spent, like the summers of so many Harvard students, amid the topless towers and teeming streets of Manhattan Island—as a fleeting glimpse of a golden age, a vision of Babylon before the judgment of the Lord came upon...
...would be safe to say that Rem Koolhaas is the only renowned architect who also once wrote a screenplay for Russ Meyer, the director of Mondo Topless. But the Dutch architect's immersion in mass culture is part of what made him just the man to design the two latest additions to the Guggenheim Museum's global museum line, opening on Oct. 7. That's because both will be located at the Venetian hotel and casino in Las Vegas...
...Hugh Hefner, the Socrates of what he called "the Playboy Philosophy," was one of the sillier figures of the 20th century. His philosophy, formulated in Woo Grotto and silk smoking jacket with a thousand Playmates, taught the profound significance and value of his Chicago-based hedonism and the creamy topless lubricities that he published...