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...wife and family. Ehrenreich illustrates the discontent that prompted the various types of male revolt. Besides the Beats, there were those aberrant males who remained unmarried, even homosexual. Whatever their choice of deviance, they were condemned by psychology and popular opinion alike. Predating the Beats, Heiner's supposedly crotic magazine made its initial contribution to this complex scheme. Rather than bringing glossy sex to the pages of America's coffee-table literature, the author claims Playboy helped legitimize the growing movement away from conformity and toward a new, personally materialistic prototype. Ehrenreich describes "the ultimately sophisticated charge against Playboy...

Author: By Melissa I. Weissberg, | Title: The War at Home | 12/6/1983 | See Source »

...dozen lands, and finally with the beauty and color of Rio's carnival. Black Orpheus recaptures not only the myth, but also the frenzied rites of the dancers who made their torchlit way from Athens to the Eleusinian shore. With brilliant color that revels in the setting's crotic intensity, the filming captures visually the vibrant joy and sad lyricism of the soundtrack...

Author: By Stephen F. Jencks, | Title: Black Orpheus | 11/13/1961 | See Source »

...more intricate geometrics d'amour so deftly contrived by the remorseless Noel. At the apex is the immoral Gary Essendine (Webb), whom Noel has attempted to bless with his own aphroditie charm, the eomic pace of Grouche Marx and the caustic sauciness of Woolcott. Perched giddily atop the crotic ding dong of assorted amours is a rare fruit who barely manages to sublimate his passion for Gary. This catalogue of irregular and illicit love left the bean monde opening nighters in a happy sweat. In less than two weeks the divertisement will be over two hundred miles away...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 10/16/1946 | See Source »

...usual tommy-gunning with the Loyalists in Spain and which finally causes him to become the martyred lover. Miss Bergman, possessor of the kind of sensitive, intelligent charm that makes most of Hollywood's leading ladies look like female cigar store Indians in contrast, contributes a refreshingly different crotic appeal and some acting, to boot. Paul Henreid is a very credible Czech patriot, with just the right amount of anti-fascist fervor...

Author: By M. I. G., | Title: MOVIEGOER | 3/8/1943 | See Source »

...tragic ballet to really rouse the audience, but even the dowagers stood up in the boxes and clapped for encore after encore. And the colorful "Bluebeard" which made a one hour sprint to the finish of the show couldn't efface the effect on the Schoenberg masterpiece. Startlingly crotic despite the Victorian costumes, and moving languidly to a climax, "Pillar of Fire" had the comprehensibility and emotional impact of a drama as well as the grace of ballet technique. But the entire program was masterful with the balance of contrasting classical, modern-dramatic, and comic techniques...

Author: By L. M. W., | Title: PLAYGOER | 10/15/1942 | See Source »

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