Word: carnally
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Bomb could only get more scandalous if it started spawning progeny. And it has. Boston University’s Boink Magazine—or, as it calls itself, “the college guide to carnal knowledge”—released its first issue last month. Its website calls the magazine “a sex-themed publication” that involves “frank discussions about sex and nude pictures of real university students.” Its features “are necessarily explicit to accurately reflect the sexual openness of an evolving generation...
...distraught lovers who are contending with some strain and who thus choose to recount details from a neutral territory as they wait out a storm that swirls about them." Absent anything more incriminating, however, such as accounts by someone who saw the two having sex or expressions of carnal desire from Lincoln or Speed, it's hard to view the letter as anything other than a description of a murder trial...
Contrast today with the early 1970s, when movies like Straw Dogs, The Devils, Last Tango in Paris and Nichols' own Carnal Knowledge promised a future of truly adult depictions of sex. At the same time, the first wave of porno chic lured the curious to the burgeoning genre of hard-core. It seemed as if these two types of films might meet--that cinema might learn to depict the ordinary, universal and melodramatic collision of two bodies, two souls, in bed. But those days, and those hopes, are deader than disco. Hollywood's erotic audacity and artistic pretensions have shriveled...
...Screw you' in Virginia Woolf. We had to take it out." His next film, The Graduate, in 1967, detailed the passive, loveless affair between a young man and his girlfriend's mother, and daringly mixed physical comedy with the most desperate romance. His boldest film was 1971's Carnal Knowledge, which traced 30 years in the sexual lives of two perpetually immature men. The excoriating chatter in Jules Feiffer's screenplay would be familiar to anyone who has sat at a bar while the guy three stools down pours out his little black heart, but it was new for mainstream...
...also can't agree with himself. Pick one of the statements below: "I think it's about the truth and lying, and the unacknowledged importance of lying in love." "It's like 'Dangerous Liaisons.' It's altogether more like 'Dangerous Liaisons' than 'Carnal Knowledge.' It's about strategy." "This is about things ancillary to sex. In 'Was he better than me?' What's the important thing there? Is it the sex, endowment, technique? Or feelings between people. And I think that the film sort of makes a distinction...