Word: calvins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...while life's absurdity can be tiring and annoying, it also produces its pleasures. Calvin Trillin is one of them. Among columnists today he has the most highly developed sense of how the swirling currents of history are usually the scene of the common mans belly-flop. It is a talent that prompts him to write sentences like, "My grandfather grew up in one of those European towns that used to change countries every week or ten days and the only claim to distinction I ever heard him make was that he had deserted two separate armies...
Once off the turnpike, trucks travel up Cambridge's River St., through Central Square, on to Prospect Sq. and out of Cambridge, according to Lt. Calvin Canter of the Cambridge Police Department...
What looks like an orgy, flirts with scandal, and sells like hot cakes? How about Obsession, the new fragrance from the guy who brought us women's jockey shorts, Calvin Klein, 42. "Who hasn't felt passion beyond reason?" asks Klein, who reasons that you do not have to go beyond passion to make a successful advertisement. His lubricious jeans ads and languorous underwear pitches have now been joined by a kinky perfume campaign. The print spot, shot by Photographer Bruce Weber, shows three apparently naked men coiled around a similarly unclad woman, all bathed in an inky blue tint...
...SEXINESS of its opening and its Calvin jeans ad campaign. The Sure Thing is not a very sexy film. Even in the dream seduction sequences between Gib and the his bikini beach babe, the girl just asks for "More" and Cusack dreamily says "later, later, later" It doesn't sound like love; it doesn't look like sex (of an R-rating quality); and it comes across, in the end, like something of a long, hard to film masturbatory sequence. Good enough. Eroticism is as distant from Cusack's physical repertoire as genuine Voltaire-level perception is from his musings...
...autonomous city-state throughout the Middle Ages, Geneva welcomed the Reformation in the 16th century and welcomed as its priest the fierce young French theologian Calvin. He not only preached against sin but organized a * theocratic state that punished it. Wearing jewelry or playing cards was made illegal. A woman caught in adultery was drowned in the Rhone. A theologian who disputed Calvin was burned at the stake. Yet Calvin's teachings attracted followers from all over Europe, and his disciples spread his stern version of Protestantism to France, Scotland and New England...