Word: erotica
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sight of the fact that however twisted and ambiguous the motives behind Burton's achievements may have been, the achievements were considerable. She would let Burton speak for himself but for the fact that Burton did not speak for himself. The uninhibited chronicler of the world's erotica and dispassionate taxonomist of the infinite varieties of human sex life, was singularly reticent about...
...LOVE (Vanguard). A surprisingly tasteful blend of erotica and exotica as Saeed Jaffrey, an Indian actor who has been seen on Broadway (A Passage to India), reads his own translation of the Kama Sutra-the classic Hindu celebration of sex-against a background of shimmering Indian music...
...could not tell night from day. He devoured all the newspapers he could get, eagerly sifting every line of print to find his name. He did crossword puzzles and browsed through dozens of books (Perry Mason mysteries, sexy novels, the Warren Report, an abstruse volume of erotica titled Virginity-Pre-Nuptial Rites and Rituals). He played gin rummy indefatigably with his jailers, who claimed he cheated. He did situps, pushups, and stood on his head for exercise. He seemed out of his mind much of the time...
...ALLEN JONES, 27, has moved away from pop art toward ambiguous blocks of hard-edge color. He exemplifies the young Londoners' qualities of depthless space, cool expertise, matte brilliance of color. He too indulges in controlled erotica when not painting buses, aircraft, and parachutists, all blurred images of speed. A Southampton engineer's son, Jones admires a curious lot of ancestors from Delaunay to Miró. Intrigued by the notion of creativity as the interaction between the male and female within each person, he often paints androgynous figures such as Hermaphrodite...
...night. From innumerable screens and stages, posters and pages, it flashes the larger-than-life-sized images of sex. From countless racks and shelves, it pushes the books which a few years ago were considered pornography. From myriad loudspeakers, it broadcasts the words and rhythms of pop-music erotica. And constantly, over the intellectual Muzak, comes the message that sex will save you and libido make you free...