The headmaster, taking advantage of this discretion, begins to get dressed again; he puts on his
BVDs, he puts on his shirt, he puts on his underwear; is there anything he hasn't put on?
From 'Children of Clay.' (excerpt, translated from 'Les Enfants du limon')
It's open." I opened the door and walked in to see the Chief Justice of the United States, a big ruddy man, standing there before me in his old-fashioned
BVDs. The next day, when we had some time together, he wore a tom baggy sweater as we composed a speech for him to deliver to an interfaith meeting a few days later.
Anecdotage
As I continued to listen, a chill ran down to my
BVDs. The group was getting ready to vote on the acronym with the most profit potential for 1995.
Letters, we got letters..
Frank comes running down to the gate, dressed in nothing but his
bvds and carrying a shotgun.
Changing colors: once a rising star in the white supremacist movement, Floyd Cochran now attacks racism with equal fervor. Is he for real?
As Rosemarie Trockel has said, "Art about women's art is just as tedious as the art of men about men's art." By making women's art about male forms--whether literal (lipstick penises,
BVDs, and wingtip shoes) or figurative ones (as postfeminist Primary Objects)--Lachowicz has hit on a material metaphor with considerable punch.
Rachel Lachowicz