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...Twenty-four hours a day sounds about right," says Crosby, who made a dozen or so films before her marriage in 1957. This week she sets out on a nationwide, 65-city roadshow tour of the two-character Broadway hit Same Time, Next Year. Her role: Doris, a faithful adultress who for more than two decades has an annual meeting with the same lover. "If Betsy Palmer gets tired of playing Doris on Broadway, I'm available at the end of April," Crosby quips. If not, she hopes to get another role in London's West...
TRAPPED IN A hellish marriage with a philandering Captain, Helene Alving abandons marital duty and seeks love and refuge in the arms of old family friend Pastor Manders. But those arms are too busy embracing the constraints of nineteenth century society to make room for a tearful would-be adultress, so Manders sends Helene right back to the Captain with a firm reproach and charter membership in the Cult of True Womanhood...
...France, and so have most of the rest of De Sade's works, which describe in relentless detail murder, torture, coprophagy, and sex orgies that are a triumph of human engineering. "Here I am," boasts a De Sade heroine during an epic orgy, "at one stroke incestuous, adultress, sodomite; and all that in a girl who only lost her maidenhead today!" If De Sade's books were only pornography, they would long ago have been forgotten. But the pornographic passages are ostensibly meant to demonstrate De Sade's passionately held conviction that man is at heart...
...seems typical of French crime films, but as soon as Maigret appears, the weird story begins to emerge. As the manhunt runs its two-hour course, Maigret captures two murderers, an adultress, her gigolo, and the Marais Killer's possessive mother. Also in this line-up are an unfortunate butcher and a petty criminal who consents to act as a murder suspect...
...earning money, which will be the only lawful and pleasing thing in the eyes of God." And it is true that other passions, such as those which lead us to the sins of the flesh, remains condemned by human law. In New England and in other states, an adultress or an unwed mother can go to prison. The simple sin of fornication--denounced by the family and neighbors of a girl who has one or two lovers--is punished in the same...