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By Erica Orden and Jack Nicas
Marilyn Monroe Sculpture, Skirt Billowing, Has Windy City Breathing Heavily
CHICAGOMarilyn Monroe was always larger than life. But here in the Windy City, the bombshell's recent appearance, in sculptural form, is showing that some viewers like it hot, others not so much.
A 26-foot-tall, 17-ton sculpture of the movie star in her iconic pose from "The Seven Year Itch," holding down her flyaway halter dress, went on display last month in a prominent plaza on Michigan Avenue.
Curious visitors, sometimes more than 100 at a time, swarm Marilyn. Little girls stand on her toes, leaving black scuffmarks on her red pedicure. They hug her ankles and struggle for footholds on the straps of her slingback high heels.
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Oh, god, the image Marilyn being 17 tons just does not do it for me at all! Then there is all the hardness and coldness of the medium they used to make it, stainless steel. She looks brittle and flinty and like an Amazonian Barbie Godzilla in a wax death mask.
Here she looks like she is going to the loo in the bushes
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424...Dslideshow
Here is a man with a foot fetish worshipping her sandals.
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And these are not gentlemen despite the clothes and they treat her disrespectfully as they did in life.
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Yes, it's the same way she was treated only in mega-size, and now everyone can get into the act... gonna need some oversized pills, an oversized shrink, an oversized grieving Dimaggio, and an over-sized candle in the wind ... she had the grace to hold herself while those around her crawled...
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Those guys look like her droppings -- except they're not worthy of the roles.
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here's the video news, if not posted...b...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newsvide...icago.html
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424...bs%3Dvideo
the tourists love it, and it is sooooooooooo tame compared to what's going on in the world, it makes you wonder why any complaints, except, she is still being used.....
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