Word: boying
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...naked boy stands at the edge of the woods, butt twisted toward the camera. The weeds in the foreground are excruciatingly in-focus. The title is "Marble Faun," evoking Hawthorne's primal America. The photographer is Fred Holland Day, a forgotten Bostonian who was famous in his time...
...might seem nave, blasphemous, or offensive if it were produced today comes off as eccentric, or perhaps quaint. Day's oeuvre becomes a historical artifact. His style peaked with the relatively modernist Hampstead series, but it reached its apotheosis in the much later "Orpheus" series, which portrays a young boy in the woods holding a lyre. "Nude Youth with Lyre," from 1907, is "Marble Faun" redone at a much higher level of technical mastery, and, more importantly, it is the work of an artist committed to his tastes. Day's love of classical subject matter was surely more than...
...friends and lawyers, including George Bernard Shaw, pursues a case of criminal libel against Queensbury for the sake of Bosie, who sees the trial as a chance to get back at his mother. Bosie's stage presence is nearly perfect; with the walk of a public school boy and slight hints at effeminacy, Snyder successfully relates Bosie's demanding and selfish desire for Wilde's complete devotion...
...week for the It Boy and It Girl Club, but something so dramatic happened that I had to choose an It Girl this week...
...Girl: Brooke Lampley '02... Every boy has been waiting patiently for the day when Brooke Lampley would be single again. Drop-dead beautiful, talented, intelligent, funny and stylish, she cuts her own path wherever she goes. The problem, of course, was that she was attached-and that, as we all know, makes your stock plummet. Well, now she's not. And thus buzz is spreading. Let the wooing begin...