A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

Sophia Loren, for example, is to Twiggy as a Rubens painting is to an X-ray. And what does an X-ray of a woman reveal? Not a realistic picture, but a deep, involving image. Not a specialized female, but a human being.
“The Future of Sex” with George B. Leonard (1967) in On the Nature of Media (2016), p 130
Year: 1967
Chapter: Sex and Love
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