Word: diversionism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ambitiously billed as starring Sweden's four most beautiful women, the film is a rather lengthy erotic comedy. It concerns the diversion of a lusty lawyer, played knowingly by Gunnar Bjornstrand. While he has affairs with an actress and with the wife of his rival for the actress, his maid...
Profane cursing or swearing, playing cards or dice, walking or other diversion of the Sabbath .... 10 shillings
The principal diversion from the plot of Mann's novel occurs in the movie's unsatisfactory conclusion. Mann intended to write another novel about the further adventures of Krull, but he did give his novel an hilarious and epiphanal conclusion with Felix's seduction of the mother of one of...
That's been her diversion every four o'clock for three centuries of Cambridge afternoons. Her young men file in--Apathetic, Beat, Sad, Angry, Intense, or just plain tired--and she teaches them to be gentlemen, for gentlemen will save the world.
"Ten years ago," recalls Queensland Symphony Conductor Rudolf Pekarek, "you had to beg people to come to concerts. Now they're always packed." Reason is that the Broadcasting Commission has trumpeted the cultural values of good music as a measure of a town's civic taste. In towns...