Word: callipygian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...when they were married in 1630), is both the record of desire and a proclamation of God's generosity. Rubens' world was tumescent; even the eyes in his portraits, large, white, engorged with visual appetite, look like erogenous zones. All his women-those grandly callipygian wardrobes of radiant flesh, whose bodies we feebly classify as "fat"-seem, as Sir Joshua Reynolds once remarked, to have "fed upon roses." The late landscapes he painted around Chateau de Steen, his country seat out side Brussels, are an extraordinary blend of the God's-eye-view landscape of mannerist...
...padding in the 13,390 entries. Is anyone likely to misplace humid or fervent or dawdle? Bernstein includes some delightful, half-remembered curios-a body stealer, for example, is a resurrectionist. But where is mooncalf? Where is poshlust? Sometimes the clue words are elusive. If one goes hunting for callipygian, he cannot look under "buttocks, rounded" or some such, but must hit "shapely buttocks" or "beautiful buttocks." ("Buttocks that are fat" yields steatopygia-which is a different matter altogether.) Bernstein's backward dictionary is a kind of combination thesaurus and crossword-puzzle dictionary. It gives only the "target" words...
...years old. Beverly Hills Designer Jim Riva, who spins his own Strings, warns: "It's something I'd hate to see on every woman in the world. It's got to be for the svelte girl only." Jacqueline Onassis, age 44, who is not noticeably callipygian, sports one but has yet to be photographed from astern. In the U.S., the cheeky look has already begun to surface at pools and beaches from California to New York. By midsummer, any comely norte-americana miss can be the Girl from Ipanema...