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Word: asse (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...McGraw angelically faded out in the film version of Love Story, fear not. Marcie, heiress-apparent to the former all-Ivy wing, is no match for Jennifer Cavilleri. She is, however, outrageously rich, mysterious, athletic and beautiful. Oliver's first comment about her is that she has a "fantastic ass." Obviously, Oliver's precious leftism does not include feminism...

Author: By Andrew Multer, | Title: ...Some of the People, Some of the Time | 4/18/1977 | See Source »

...bank. He sends Puck in search of an aphrodisiac flower which will make the Queen fall in love with the first creature she sees on waking. The result is just what the fairy king Oberon had hoped for. Tytania espies Bottom (J. Scott Brummitt), whom Puck has given an ass's head. She immediately decides that they could have a meaningful relationship. She lures him to her bower and dismisses her attendant fairies, but the unromantic ass-headed lover yawns and falls asleep...

Author: By Diana R. Laing, | Title: Thickets of Enchantment and Illusion | 4/16/1977 | See Source »

...robbed her of every tatter of human identity." To say that Take Off is sexist because of the striptease is analagous to calling Roots racis, because it depicted blacks as slaves. Whitaker's irritating inability to grasp the obvious is again demonstrated in his dismissal of Stan Berkowitz's Ass (incorrectly attributed to a Tom DeMore [sic] as "...a stag movie for donkeys, replete with all but completely graphic bestiality." The point he misses is, obviously, that "stag movies" and their ilk that depict women (and men) in a degrading and dehumanizing manner attract an audience of human jackasses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Flick Flack | 4/15/1977 | See Source »

...give you an idea: a short called "Ass," by Tom DeMore, is built on the idea of a stag movie for donkeys, replete with all but completely graphic bestiality. A cartoon short called "Desire Pie," meanwhile, filmed by a group from the Carpenter Center, looks like an animated version of the amateurish depictions of coitus in bathroom stalls around campus (with a few touches reminiscent of The Yellow Submarine thrown in--for artistic merit...

Author: By Mark T. Whitaker, | Title: Puerile Palpitations | 3/28/1977 | See Source »

...distinction is hardly significant, but then neither are the details of Billy's life, yet they're here too. A chronology shows him marrying his fifteen-year-old high school sweetheart, going off into the Marines because he "wants to be a bad-ass," flunking out of Emory University, watching his gas station almost blow...

Author: By Jonathan H. Alter, | Title: Good Ole Cult | 3/26/1977 | See Source »

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