Word: aphrodisiac
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...send a commission to work on the problem. Callao's international operators speeded up their shipments to clear out big inventories. But domestic dealers were unworried. Said one: "If you're poor, you're hungry. Pichicato fixes that. If you're rich, you want an aphrodisiac. Pichicato fixes that, too. It's a sure cure for everything...
...Robert McEnroe; produced by the Theatre Guild) tells how a spacious liar and accomplished charlatan rejuvenates an old folks' home. A 47-year-old hobo, Oliver Erwenter (José Ferrer) poses as a superbly virile codger of 77 and passes out to the men folk a magical aphrodisiac (actually, small bread pellets). He tells lordly yarns of foreign travel and female conquest; makes flamboyant love to a young lady employed at the home; and with a bit of help, swipes the equipment and supplies for a rousing charity bazaar. Though the truth about him gradually leaks...
...under a new law which permits prosecution of a book rather than a bookseller. Most interesting exhibit: a realistic, life-size photographic cut-out of sexy Authoress Kathleen Winsor. Though the prosecutor thundered, the judge, a man of 65, averred: "The book acts like a soporific rather than an aphrodisiac. While conducive to sleep it is not conducive to a desire to sleep with a member of the opposite sex." His verdict: Not guilty...
Duel in the Sun (David O. Selznick; Vanguard) is a knowing blend of oats and aphrodisiac. It is the costliest, the most lushly Technicolored, the most lavishly cast, the loudest ballyhooed, and the sexiest horse opera ever made...
...Shocking Miss Pilgrim" is guaranteed shockproof, but if you feel in the need of a mild aphrodisiac and like Betty Grable decollate, you could probably do worse than see the source of all this Boston-baiting publicity...