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Word: cupids (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...surprisingly, Gina's Cupid is the pick of the lot. The other sexcerpts look to Boccaccio chiefly for borrowed glamour. Cupid, updated from an irreverent Decameron tale, retains the full flavor of its source, and suggests that the thing missing from most movies about sex is a master's touch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Four for Foolery | 7/9/1965 | See Source »

...Lollobrigida, the outrageously accomplished predator of Monsignor Cupid, ensnares the staid nephew (Jean Sorel) of a churchman attending the Vatican Council in Rome. As a hotelkeeper who offers practically unlimited amenities, Gina tricks the gullible monsignor (Akim Tamiroff) into acting as her go-between, unwittingly goading the stalwart young innocent to her bed. How she does it is revealed by Director Mauro Bolognini with style, polish and cinematic fluidity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Four for Foolery | 7/9/1965 | See Source »

Stupid plays cupid for a whisky-throated crooner named Dean Martin, played by Martin himself in an orgy of self-parody. En route to Hollywood from Las Vegas, the swinger has to detour through the town of Climax, Nev. "The only way to go," he leers. In Climax his Dual-Ghia is sabotaged by a garage mechanic (Cliff Osmond) and a piano teacher (Ray Walston) who want to peddle their songs. Martin's only interest is broads ("If I skip one night, I wake up with such a headache"). Unwilling to peddle his own wife (Felicia Farr) along with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Hipster's Harlot | 1/1/1965 | See Source »

Died. Bessie Love Merryman, 100, the Duchess of Windsor's dowager aunt and her constant chaperone throughout the royal courtship, a hard-boiled Yankee who advised Edward in the midst of his dilemma between Cupid and crown, "You can always marry someone else; you can never again be King"; in Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Dec. 4, 1964 | 12/4/1964 | See Source »

...mating game has always been the Summer School's favorite pastime, but in recent years Cupid has had a battalion of assistants working out of Matthews Hall...

Author: By R. ANDREW Beyer, | Title: Message Center Will Deliver Sonnets | 7/7/1964 | See Source »

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