Word: anding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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> Bonnie and Clyde, 1967.
THE KISS SACRED AND PROFANE by Nicolas James Perella. 356 pages. University of California Press. $10.95.
> Godard's Breathless and Fellini's la Dolce Vita open in the U.S., 1961.
Before a reader gets too cozy with Professor Perella's explication of the religio-erotic kiss symbolism in Western culture, it should be noted that not everyone has found mutual labial stimulation appealing. To the Chinese, for example, kissing had revolting associations with cannibalism. Even Dr. Freud seemed standoffish...
Fortunately, love conquers all, including clinical details. It even manages to overcome the index-card scholarship ot the author, a professor of Italian literature at Berkeley. Yet despite the innate beauty of its subject and its careful grooming by its author, The Kiss Sacred and Profane is the sort of...