{"id":312,"date":"2008-04-16T14:27:19","date_gmt":"2008-04-16T21:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2008\/04\/now-i-want-a-photo-of-sarko-in-the-buff\/"},"modified":"2008-04-16T14:30:16","modified_gmt":"2008-04-16T21:30:16","slug":"now-i-want-a-photo-of-sarko-in-the-buff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2008\/04\/16\/now-i-want-a-photo-of-sarko-in-the-buff\/","title":{"rendered":"Now I Want A Photo of Sarko In The Buff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-style: italic\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.observer.com\/2008\/sacre-bruni\" target=\"_blank\">from the New York Observer<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal\"><\/span><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"title\" style=\"color: #013588; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\"><em>Sacre<\/em>\u00a0Bruni!<\/h1>\n<p class=\"field field-type-text field-field-subtitle\" style=\"font: italic normal normal 1.34em\/1.1em Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: #013588; margin-top: 0px\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #000000; line-height: 18px\">Gorgeous, Stylish, Occasionally Nude \u2026 Does Mrs. Sarkozy Matter? France\u2019s 21st-Century Lady of State, Merger of Sex, Power, Art; \u2018She Arouses Envy,\u2019 Says Tony Judt, \u2018Let \u2019em Eat Cheesecake!\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"meta\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1em; text-transform: uppercase; color: #6d6d6d; line-height: 1.4em; font-size: 10px\"><span class=\"article-author\" style=\"font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px\"><span class=\"article-by\" style=\"font-weight: normal\">BY<\/span>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.observer.com\/node\/36015\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"text-decoration: none; color: #003687\">HILLARY FREY<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0|\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"article-date\" style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; display: inline; margin-right: 3px; color: #6d6d6d\">APRIL 15, 2008<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-tags\" style=\"display: inline; color: #003687; font-weight: normal\"><span class=\"tags\" style=\"font-weight: bold\">|\u00a0\u00a0TAGS:<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul class=\"links inline\" style=\"display: inline; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\">\n<li class=\"first taxonomy_term_31417\" style=\"display: inline; list-style-type: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.observer.com\/culture\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"tag\" title=\"Arts &amp; Culture\" class=\"taxonomy_term_31417\" style=\"text-decoration: none; color: #003687\">ARTS &amp; CULTURE<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"taxonomy_term_52369\" style=\"display: inline; list-style-type: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.observer.com\/term\/52369\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"taxonomy_term_52369\" style=\"text-decoration: none; color: #003687\">CARLA BRUNI<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"last taxonomy_term_25491\" style=\"display: inline; list-style-type: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.observer.com\/term\/25491\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"taxonomy_term_25491\" style=\"text-decoration: none; color: #003687\">NICOLAS SARKOZY<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"meta\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1em; text-transform: uppercase; color: #6d6d6d; line-height: 1.4em; font-size: 10px\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #003687\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; text-transform: none\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px\">Until last Thursday, when a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/ffximage\/2008\/04\/11\/bruni_narrowweb__300x600,0.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">nude photograph of Carla Bruni<\/a>, the 40-year-old model-turned-pop-star-turned-first lady of France, sold at Christie\u2019s for $91,000, more than 20 times its expected price, Ms. Bruni hadn\u2019t been the\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/carlabruni.png\" alt=\"Carla Bruni by Philip Burke\" align=\"right\" \/>subject of much conversation among New Yorkers. But over the last week, her name popped out of pursed lips at cocktail lounges and long lunches across the city, as men and women started to catch on that a new icon of fashion, sex and sensibility\u2014a 21st-century amalgam of Jackie O, Lady Di and J-Lo\u2014was emerging across the Atlantic. News of the photo sale even made it onto\u00a0<em>Saturday Night Live\u2019s<\/em>\u00a0weekend update.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text\" style=\"padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px\"><span>Thanks to the Internet, the photograph\u2014taken by Michael Comte in 1993, when Ms. Bruni was working as a model\u2014made the rounds. Her face all wide planes, her small breasts pointing off in two directions, she stands with her hands forming a diamond over her nether regions, a sort of ironic Eve pose, but she doesn\u2019t seem to be covering up for her own sake. Her expression\u2014her lips are parted in a parody of innocence, her eyes are semi-frozen\u2014says she had little need for shelter. Her skin is just the outfit she\u2019s put on for the picture, as easy to model as a Dior suit or an Yves Saint Laurent gown. This woman has nothing to hide.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"text\" style=\"padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px\"><span>Indeed, in our own political season, when concealment, attack and counterattack are so rife, there\u00a0<em>was<\/em>\u00a0something Edenic about the photo of a first lady standing naked, unapologetic, challenging the viewer to choose between arousal and admiration. Because frankly, she looks great. The fact that the photo was taken 15 years ago is irrelevant, because Ms. Bruni has continued her full-frontal, forward surge of sex and power to this current day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.observer.com\/2008\/sacre-bruni\" target=\"_blank\">click to read full article in the New York Observer<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from the New York Observer Sacre\u00a0Bruni! Gorgeous, Stylish, Occasionally Nude \u2026 Does Mrs. Sarkozy Matter? France\u2019s 21st-Century Lady of State, Merger of Sex, Power, Art; \u2018She Arouses Envy,\u2019 Says Tony Judt, \u2018Let \u2019em Eat Cheesecake!\u2019 BY\u00a0HILLARY FREY\u00a0\u00a0|\u00a0\u00a0APRIL 15, 2008\u00a0 |\u00a0\u00a0TAGS:\u00a0 ARTS &amp; CULTURE CARLA BRUNI NICOLAS SARKOZY Until last Thursday, when a nude photograph of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}