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Word: decameron (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Melted Ears. Decameron (Ron) Grant, 36, is a playwright with the genius of an O'Neill and the sexual insatiability of a Sukarno. He is strictly a four-letter man, and he has manhood problems and a domineering mistress-an older woman who with her husband nurtured the young playwright's talents in his more golden days. To rediscover himself, Grant heads for the Caribbean to go skindiving. In addition to a shark or two, he spears beautiful Lucky Videndi, and as he tries to work out a modus vivendi with her, he alternates between ocean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Little Boy with Wind Machine | 4/7/1967 | See Source »

...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 »

...that during her celebrated "nude" scene she was wearing a flesh-colored coverall. Pending the outcome of charges that Lollo and her codefendants may have perpetrated an immoral exhibition, movie exhibitors everywhere are itching to unreel the evidence. It consists of a four-part comedy, vaguely inspired by The Decameron, in which a quartet of beauties with little on their minds and less on their bodies wriggle through a keyhole-art film of widely varied quality...

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

Boccaccio '70 is scarcely the updated Decameron it tongue-in-cheekily professes to be, but Sex Goddesses Sophia Loren, Anita Ekberg and Romy Schneider give highly erotitillating performances...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Jul. 27, 1962 | 7/27/1962 | See Source »

Boccaccio '70 is scarcely the updated Decameron it tongue-in-cheekily professes to be, but sex goddesses Sophia Loren, Anita Ekberg and Romy Schneider give highly erotitillating performances...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema, Television, Theater, Books: Jul. 20, 1962 | 7/20/1962 | See Source »

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