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No polish required ... 39c set. Continued, jrom page 39 this way at all. If so-called starlets and models who have no place to go but up want to go in for these “nudie” pictures, well, that’s their problem and heaven knows they have nothing to lose. But Arlene is an established actress and a syndicated columnist. Furthermore, as Mrs. Chris Holmes, wife of a Texas millionaire, and the mother of two children, she has an established place in society,” Miss Dahl sent her a letter in defense of her action, one sentence of which, at least, is as sad as it is revealing. “I was delighted to learn the magazine feels that some hope is left for those of us who have reached twenty or even thirty years,” Miss Dahl said. The big question But none of these special circumstances — the attempt to get a first “break.” the attempt to stave off the bill collectors, the attempt to prove herself still seductive — applies to Elizabeth Taylor. Yet she did choose to pose in the nude. Why? This question cannot be answered out of context — the context of Miss Taylor’s whole life, present and past. An examination of her past and her present leads us to settle on one word with which to characterize not only her posing in the nude, but also her flaunting of herself in recent years and her incessant flouting of most moral codes and conventions. That word is “exhibitionism.” The great pioneers in psychology and psychotherapy have written volumes on this subject, but for a layman’s working definition of “exhibitionism.” let us turn to Webster’s Third New International Dictionary. There we find the following entry: “The act or practice of behaving so as to attract attention to oneself; extravagant or wilfully conspicuous behavior.” This definition, oversimplified as it is, will serve our purposes. Does not Miss Taylor’s posing in the nude fall within this classification? And her flamboyant lovemaking in public with Richard Burton on the deck of that yacht off the Isle of Ischia? And her return to London at Christmas with Burton (they arrived in the same overnight sleeping train from Paris and checked into the same hotel, the Dorchester, where, incidentally, she and her husband Eddie Fisher had stayed during her previous trip — when she almost lost her life from pneumonia)? Was it not “exhibitionism” — her gallivanting with Burton in Rome’s night clubs during the filming of “Cleopatra,” despite her alleged revulsion for publicity? As one writer pointed out, she didn’t have to carry on in public, for “where there’s a villa there’s a way.” Was it not “exhibitionism” — her amatory wrestling with Burton in front of the east and the camera crew on the set of the picture? And to go further back in her life — was it not “exhibitionism” when she appeared on Eddie Fisher’s arm in the crowded main dining room at Grossinger’s, not too many months after Mike Todd had died — while back in California, Debbie 1 Reynolds waited for her husband to return? A i Before we turn to Miss Taylor’s past J to search out and find the genesis for this exhibitionism, the root causes for her need to expose her private life to the eyes of 1 the world, we must make one further point about her compulsion: Exhibitionism is always disguised aggression. That’s a psychologist’s way of saying that the exhibitionist may think he is giving society a slap in the face by his actions (remember Miss ■ Taylor’s significant comment, “We respect i public opinion, but we can’t live by it”), I but in actuality the exhibitionist’s behavior i is meant to shock and shame one person, usually a parent, close friend or relative. Our clue to who this person might be, in Elizabeth Taylor’s life, is supplied to us by Dr. Harold Greenwald. a psychologist who. in writing in general about women who pose in the nude or near-nude before the cameras, said that such exposure can be interpreted as “an act of defiance against their mothers.” These women, he claimed, “are usually ones whose mothers have been very strict.” Before we see if Dr. Greenwald’s notion is valid in helping us to understand Miss Taylor’s behavior, let us test it briefly on some other actresses who have become famous (and infamous) for posing in the nude or near-nude and find out what results we come up with. Marilyn Monroe certainly seemed to have rebelled against strictness, the onagain-off-again strictness of her own mother (made even more unbearable because of the long periods during her childhood when she lost contact with her mother completely) and the rigid, unloving strictness of a whole series of foster-mothers. A dream of nudity This unyielding strictness — added to the fact that young Marilyn was convinced she was ugly — gave rise to a recurrent dream she first had when she was six. In this dream, to quote her own words, “I was standing up in church without any clothes on, and all the people there were lying naked at my feet on the floor of the church and I walked naked with a sense of freedom over their prostrate forms.” A dream of rebellion against discipline, of defiance against her “mothers.” A dream that she later was to be compelled to act out in real life. The fusing of these two factors — parental strictness and a feeling of being ugly — was also operative in the early life of Linda Christian, who later was the lifemodel for a much publicized nude statue. In recalling her childhood Linda says, “When I was a kid my father always said: ‘You’ll have to be very intelligent to get anywhere; you’re so ugly.’ And when he d call ‘Blanca Rosa,’ which was my mother’s name, too, and I’d answer, he’d say: ‘Not you — the intelligent one.’ ” Kim Novak, whose ample bosom and unsheathed legs were later to appear in photos that left little to the imagination, was also, as a child, painfully aware of her own unattractiveness. “Not many people 96