striptease

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Described variously as "an epic poem", a "watershed composition" and "a sort of intellectual striptease", it is intensely personal, doggedly intellectual and staggering in its scope.

From BBC • Sep. 13, 2022

I enjoy art that antagonizes you, and then, slowly, in an emotional striptease, reveals a gooey, loving center.

From New York Times • Mar. 17, 2022

For Leonardo, the underlying machinery of the male body is humanity’s hidden engine, here revealed in an anatomical striptease that cuts through the outer cloak of skin to reveal muscle, tendon and bone beneath.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 10, 2018

A kind of teasing irony is detectable on Masseduction, a musical striptease on which Annie Clark – who performs as St Vincent – exposes herself on her own terms.

From The Guardian • Dec. 5, 2017

Miss Starr continued to perform until the mid-1980s, when she said the artistry of striptease had become lost.

From Washington Post • Jun. 16, 2015