New on F&O
Happy Monday, world. Here’s our lineup of new work on Facts and Opinions: In Arts: The Fan Dancer: Sally Rand. By Brian Brennan (subscription required*) My assignment was to interview a 71-year-old grandmother who danced nude while waving a couple of big white ostrich-feather fans like the veils of Salome. She had been a star in 1933 when she created a sensation at the Chicago World’s Fair, but now she seemed more of a curiosity. A 1972 article in The Village Voice had been headlined, “What do you say to a naked 68-year-old lady?” What indeed? Between glamour and intimacy: