Similar strains of fascination and repulsion convulsed their artists " Nonetheless, nudity and violence are more evident in British paintings set in the ancient world, and " the iconography of the odalisque ... the Oriental sex slave whose image is offered up to the viewer as freely as she herself supposedly was to her master-is almost entirely French in origin ", though taken up with enthusiasm by Italian and other painters.

After the 1954 Yangtze River Floods, in 1956, Mao Zedong authored " Swimming ", a poem about his fascination with a dam on the Yangtze River.

Russell W. Belk mentions the money bin in Material Values in the Comics: A Content Analysis of Comic Books Featuring Themes of Wealth, where he remarks that Scrooge's " childish fascination with money ", where he takes pleasure in diving and swimming in the money bin, might account for Scrooge not being portrayed as a villain.

Owing to a fascination with airplanes, gadgets and science fiction, he sent names like " Rocket ", " Retro ", " Ramjet ", and " Roger ", the latter a term used in signalling protocol over two-way radios, military and civil aviation.

Vasari said of him " He did nothing but make bozzetti and finished little ", and modern commentators have remarked on the vitality of Bandinelli's terracotta models contrasted with the finished marbles: " all the freshness of his first approach to a subject was lost in the laborious execution in marble ... A brilliant draughtsman and excellent small-scale sculptor, he had a morbid fascination for colossi which he was ill-equipped to execute.

Eleanor Winsor Leach claimed, in her Lacanian analysis " Gendering Clodius ", that the frequency and intensity of Cicero's word plays on the cognomen Pulcher (" handsome, lovely ") a certain fascination masquerading under rebuke.

Much of the material derived from Tim Finn's and Phil Judd's fascination with the work of English writer and artist Mervyn Peake – notably Spellbound, the track " Stranger Than Fiction " ( their concert centrepiece ) and " Titus ", named after the hero of Peake's Gormenghast trilogy.

The Big Chicken has also appeared in the comic strip " Zippy the Pinhead " as a part of artist Bill Griffith's fascination with roadside icons, such as West Hollywood's " Tail of the Pup ", and the ubiquitous " Muffler Man " who was used to hold full-sized car mufflers, giant hot dogs, tires, or other items promoting various roadside businesses.

Driven by a lifelong fascination with this " vanished tribe ", Van der Post published a 1958 book about the same expedition, entitled The Lost World of the Kalahari.

He wrote the alkali halide paper in 1923, having " by the summer of 1922 " been " thoroughly indoctrinated ... with quantum theory ", in part by the courses of Edwin Kemble following a fascination with Bohr's work during his undergraduate days.

Some fetishists have a fascination with the addictive properties of nicotine, and its ability to cause harm, and there is a sub-fetish relating to women being harmed by smoking, sometimes called " the dark side ", " black lung fetish " or " lung damage ".

A distinct application of Dada was his own work with masks, seen by Hugo Ball as having generated fascination with their unusual " kinetic power ", and useful for performing " larger-than-life characters and passions.

Muldaur described the L. A. Law actors as " the closest family ", and said she was " thrilled " to play a villain like Shays after portraying " everybody's mistress for 20 years ", and expressed fascination with the public reception for Shays:

It was his fascination with technology that inspired him to record three-part harmonies ( soprano, tenor, baritone ) for his role as a multiple-voiced singing whale in the animated Walt Disney feature, " The Whale Who Wanted to Sing at the Met ", the concluding sequence in the 1946 feature film Make Mine Music.

Daniil invented the pseudonym Kharms while attending high school at the prestigious German " Peterschule ", probably influenced by his fascination with Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes.

The libretto also reflects Gilbert's fascination with the " Stock Company Act ", highlighting the absurd convergence of natural persons and legal entities, which plays an even larger part in the next opera, Utopia Limited.

Guitarist and vocalist Artur Rojek started the band in 1992 as " The Freshmen ", taking the initial name from the 1990 film The Freshman, starring Marlon Brando and Matthew Broderick — which indicates a fascination with cinema that would become a characteristic feature throughout the band's career.

( Enjoy What You Do )", a song about the joys of a leisurely life on the dole ; " Bad Boys ", about a strained relationship between a rebellious teenage boy and his worried parents ; and " Club Tropicana ", a satire of the media's fascination with the elitist London club scene.

When he himself writes about his fascination for " the gap between fame and misfortune ", I immediately think about his own artistry, but naturally also about so many other artists that did not get discovered.

Due to the town's small size and the fascination with the trailer park stereotype, what were sometimes smaller incidents caused major headlines in the media of the area: In 1970, then-mayor George Reiter attempted to replace the female village clerk because he believed men were temperamentally better suited for the position, a view held by many of his supporters in the city.

It is considered by scholars to have been the city of Yachi Fu ( Duck Pond Town ) where people had used cowries as cash and ate their meat raw, as described by the 13th-century Venetian traveler Marco Polo who traveled to the area and wrote about his fascination of the place.

In " Something Fishy This Way Comes ," it is revealed that he has a fascination with the advanced mermaid city.

Sheppard is, however, exasperated by her fascination with her signs and her requests that he tour the city with her to see them.

Such acts exemplify a flâneurs active participation in and fascination with street life while displaying a critical attitude towards the uniformity, speed, and anonymity of modern life in the city.

For lawyers, reflecting perhaps their parochial preferences, there has been a special fascination since then in the role played by the Supreme Court in that transformation -- the manner in which its decisions altered in `` the switch in time that saved nine '', President Roosevelt's ill-starred but in effect victorious `` Court-packing plan '', the imprimatur of judicial approval that was finally placed upon social legislation.

But he painted some of the boldest and most original pictures of his time, and even after nearly half a century, the tense, tormented world he put on canvas has lost none of its fascination.

The first substantially complete stereo Giselle ( and the only one of its scope since Feyer's four-sided LP edition of 1958 for Angel ), this set is, I'm afraid, likely to provide more horrid fascination than enjoyment.

If you drive greater distances than that, you'll just be skimming the surface and will never discover the enchantment, fascination and beauty which lured you in the first place to explore the hinterlands.

Although the primary mathematical properties of the middle number at the center of the Lo Shu, and the interrelation of all the other numbers to it, might seem enough to account for the deep fascination which the Lo Shu held for the Old Chinese philosophers, this was actually only a beginning of wonders.

The black Fudo seemed to stare rigidly back at him and Richard's eyes were caught by the Fudo's in fascination, and then Richard was shocked as, all at once, flames shot out from the sharp features of Fudo's face and there was a terrible metallic scraping sound, as if the large statue were about to burst from some pressure within it.

Austrian-born Adolf Hitler had a lifelong romantic fascination for the Alps and by the 1930s established a home in the Obersalzberg region outside of Berchtesgaden.

Poirot had never been able to rid himself of the fatal fascination that the Countess held for him.

Psychologists have been intrigued by De Palma's fascination with pathology, by the aberrant behavior aroused in characters who find themselves manipulated by others.

His fascination with the prospect of having Jen as a disciple also motivates his behavior, and that of Jade Fox.

He emphasized style, a fascination with surfaces, and atmosphere over traditional science-fiction tropes.

A celebrity is a person who has a prominent profile and commands a great degree of public fascination and influence in day-to-day media.

So began his lifelong fascination with logic and reasoning.

The fascination of his saintly personality drew numerous communities around him.

An early fascination in automobiles led Brown to a job with the Stevens-Duryea Company, then to his own Brown Motor Car Company in Alabama.

Cronenberg's fascination with the film Winter Kept Us Warm ( 1966 ) by classmate David Secter sparked his interest in film.

Defoe's next novel was Captain Singleton ( 1720 ), a bipartite adventure story whose first half covers a traversal of Africa and whose second half taps into the contemporary fascination with piracy.

Girardot, Miller and Liu ( 2001: xxxi ) explain, " earlier discussions of the Daoist tradition were often distorted and misleading — especially in terms of the special Western fascination with the ' classical ' or ' philosophical ' Daode jing and the denigration and neglect of the later sectarian traditions.

Bowie's fascination with the bizarre was fuelled when he met dancer Lindsay Kemp: " He lived on his emotions, he was a wonderful influence.

Robert Lowie later said that Sapir's fascination with indigenous languages stemmed from the seminar with Boas in which Boas used examples from Native American languages to disprove all of Sapir's common-sense assumptions about the basic nature of Language.

Time magazine wrote in 1969 that Singer had had a lifelong fascination with Phobos and Mars's second moon, Deimos.

The mood and themes of the Gothic novel held a particular fascination for the Victorians, with their morbid obsession with mourning rituals, mementos, and mortality in general.

The animal was a source of fascination for the Chinese people, who associated it with the mythical Qilin.

The gothic fascination with the macabre has raised public concerns regarding the psychological well-being of goths.

Baldung ’ s fascination with witchcraft lasted well into the end of his career.