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Museum of Modern Art, New York June 11, 1998 NY9810 Costume White shortsleeve blouse and very short open-legged denim shorts. Hands. LA <> MLA. Actions A young woman and her date have ascended the escalator to the forth floor of the Museum of Modern Art. The boyfriend is tall and lean and the girlfriend is shorter and slender. She flashes the side of her belly when she wipes the hair out of her face. Her exceptional display is not her belly flashing but is a continuum beyond her bare legs. Many of the visitors are wearing shorts, but this visitor's loose-fitting shorts reveal not only the line where her cheeks meet her leg, but the lower third of her butt as well. Such an exposure would be provocative at the beach, but here in the museum it is past the extreme. A pair of eyes stalk her and she looks over her shoulder at the voyeur. He keeps looking and she turns away, her boyfriend pretending obviousness. She looks around again, and discovers that her stare is failing to dissuade her admirer. Delicately she clasps her hands behind her back, and then carefully distends the museum program from her fingers so that it partly covers her butt (1). She drifts away and turns her head again, only to discover that her action has attracted other eyes. Out of the other side of her eye she catch a young couple riding up the escalator who have become oblivious to her exposure from a lower angle, and are jousting each other about it. She is over exposed and can't hide. Commentary One wonders about the politics here. A skilled exhibitionist would not try to intimidate her onlookers. Perhaps she was trying to arouse her boyfriend, or perhaps he put her up to it, but in either respect he has drawn her into a situation of embarrassment. Source Recounted by the Chief Bikini Scientist. 1 picture. |
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