NYTimes slideshow on speakeasies & "Joe sent me" code words

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From the article "Bar? What Bar?"

Forbidden images: the charge of art, music & poetry...

the forbidden, desire, gestures as messages, Salome, dance as expression of rebellion, exaltation, freedom, redemption...

Julie London: 'Cry Me A River' from 1955

Julie London, one of my all-time favorites & earliest influences...