Word: phallically
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Over the next 25 years she acquired another husband, Albert Hardy Newman, a Chicago stockbroker and real estate developer. She also kept on picking up whatever paintings and art objects appealed to her: masks from Oceania, a phallic house post from Africa. She was not making investments. Explains one admirer: "She used her eyes rather than her ears." Says she: "I'm not really a collector. Buying art is really a sublimation...
...nips at the unexposed flanks of the newsmagazine process, particularly the so-called back of the book, where a new sect or fad is no news until the magazine's editors/correspondents discover it. There is, for example, the "dirty bushes" story involving a gardener who prunes shrubs into phallic and vaginal shapes. And the quixotic "two-thirds stocking" fad, where the only stumbling block for the writer is what two-thirds means -two-thirds of the way to the knee or just two-thirds of a stocking...
...impotence--America's impotence in the face of past horrors--provides one clue to the decline of their relationship. Kubrick begins to play with sexual imagery just as the film starts to thrust toward a climax. In a sequence that reveals Wendy's sexual dominance, she wields a phallic baseball bat at hip level, thrusting it rhythmically in Jack's face as he grins maniacally and moves closer. Only when Jack takes up the ax does his sexual strength return...