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...after all, conceive and produce Oh! Calcutta! Tynan can be glib, self-serving, tricky and loosely digressionary. But he is never dull. At 52, the graying provocateur describes himself as "a cricket-loving radical" and misses few opportunities to tease the bourgeoisie about the joys of the flesh...
...unfettering of post-impressionist color. The stocky, compact little body looks curiously unsensuous, at least by the conventions that Ingres or his salon followers would have recognized, but it is color that turns it into the epitome of carnality: the deep lunar blue of the chair enthroning the shadowed flesh, the sudden blaze of yellow on the floor. In such paintings, the world is reformed entirely in terms of color. The way to Matisse and the Fauves is open. A new era has begun...
...bided his time in quiet rage. As Carnival began in 1580, the festivities were supercharged with hatred between competing camps of revelers. The parades of these mock "kingdoms" had sinister overtones. Masquers of Paumier's Sheep Kingdom carried rakes, brooms and flails, wore shrouds and grimly offered "Christian flesh" for sale. Guerin's ostentatious Partridge Kingdom mocked the poorer townsmen with price lists offering luxuries for a pittance. More immediately threatening was the Partridge army-a real one - whose men carried new arquebuses and long Swiss pikes. The troops went into action during the notables' masked ball...
...what he reports. All the relevations are believable, even predictable, but why print them? Justice Potter Stewart said in a 1964 decision that he could not define pornography. "But I know it when I see it," his decision concludes. Since the Constitution does little to outline how much flesh is protected by the first amendment, and since the Court history on the issue has been a hodge-podge of fairly feeble arguments--from "utterly without redeeming social value" to the more recent "community standards" test--it is obvious that pornography has always been what the individual Supreme Court justices decide...
...Word became flesh," says John's Gospel of the incarnate Christ of Bethlehem. In Christmas sermons before some 75 million Americans this week, words about Christ will become flesh in the person of the preacher. Through their strange and marvelous craft, Christianity has been transmitted and reshaped for every age since Christ himself went "preaching the Gospel of the kingdom...