So she sacrifices by subletting, enabling her to share indoor privileges with four fellow transients in a house that is decorated in what best could be described as collegiate dishabille, the major furniture being five bikes hanging from a wall in the foyer.
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At David Tunick, a splendid find that recently resurfaced on the market is " Les Cartes " of 1903, Jacques Villon's delightfully anecdotal rendition in etching and aquatint of a woman in dishabille and yellow hat playing solitaire on a red coverlet.
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"The image of the prostitute in dishabille . . . handkerchief or garment sleeve clenched in her teeth while reading a letter announcing love, lust or rejection . . . was common fare in premodern Japanese prints, " his label says . " Use of earlier, erotically charged visual conventions is somewhat jarring and highlights the shortcomings of traditional models available to depict new social realities ."
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We both grew up in North London; we're both of Jewish heritage ( although him more than me ), we're both philosophically inclined, we're both highly sexual, we're both rebellious, we're both obsessed by mental illness ( although him as a practitioner, me as a writer ), we've both been married more than once and have numerous children, we both affect a certain dishabille, we both like Jimi Hendrix.
